Avenue Q back for final run
Remember me raving hell like a lunatic? Well, freakin’ good news!!! Image Source: Atlantis Productions Inc. For more details, visit the Atlantis Productions’ official site
v-u-den to disband
Image Source: Wiki.ThePPn According to Japanese online newspaper Sankei Sports , v-u-den, one of Hello! Project’s subgroups, is finally disbanding in June. The news was announced to fans during a recent concert at the Yokohama Arena. Okada Yui and Miyoshi Erika will be starting solo work still under Hello! Project. Leader Ishikawa Rika will remain in Ongaku Gatas.
Anime we miss: Time Travel TONDEKEMAN
a.k.a. Time Quest Lilipad, lilipad, takure!
2007 Top 10 Japanese Buzzwords
Here are Jiyu Kokumin-sha’s Top 10 Ryukogo Taisho (Japanese Buzzwords) for 2007: Rank #1 Dogenka, sen to ikan Somehow, we have to do it — Miyazaki Governor Higashikokubaru Hideo during his exhortation before the assembly of his economically ailing prefecture
Bento Grass
Original photo from: Sugarcharms What are those green plastic cut-outs in bento boxes for? This is one question that I never got to ask when I was in Japan, thinking that the answer was fairly obvious – as food decoration. But one American visitor to Japan did, and apparently there’s more to this “bento grass” (haran or baran) than meets the eye: They are indeed intended to add color, an essential part of food...