JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Why do some celebrities self-destruct due to substance abuse?
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What do you think are the main reasons why U.S. car sales are so low in Japan?
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What can be done to ease escalating tensions between the West and Iran over its nuclear program? And should Japan join sanctions against Iran?
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What do you think of the revised plan to realign U.S. forces in Japan by sending some Marines to Guam, and rotating others to Australia, the Philippines, Hawaii and possibly Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture?
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Why are there so many deaths due to snow-related accidents (people falling off rooftops, for example) in Japan this winter?
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smartacus
Either the arrest of music producer Tetsuya Komoro or all those stupid "Best" awards they give to airhead celebrities.
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romulus3
All the actresses that had shotgun weddings
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BlackFlag
Uno Kanda's new line of handbags
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GW
there is NO entertainment in Jpn, only manga & video games, a plague the both of them, certainly not entertainment!
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realist
Im sure those Kano sisters, the walking "Nip Tuck" twins, did something but for the ife of me, I cant remember what . . . Was it something to do with hammocks?
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Betting
All those "Bestist" awards for sure!! Can't wait for next year, I'm hoping to see a, "Best potatist" then!!
Or maybe it has been one of those, "Ambassadorships". I thought the "Melon Ambassador" was pretty cool and so were her melons.
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Good_Jorb
The appointment of "Ambassadorships" was pure fluff and so ridiculous it couldn't be anything but the biggest enterainment news in Japan.
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rurika
Yu Darvish and Saeko's baby :-)
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Razor
Kumi Koda being forced into "exile" after her remarks about the rotten fluid in women's wombs.
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Sarge
Ebi-chan wants someone to take her for a drive.
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outofmydepth
entertainment? i am with some of the other posters here. there really is no entertainment unless you count the politicians and bureaucrats. now some of that stuff is really entertaining.
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bamboohat
Those guys that got arrested for making a porno in the dumpster.
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Altria
Ann Suzuki going to New York to study English.
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nisegaijin
Financial crisis... oh, i am sorry... i guess it's not as important as entertainment. Global warming then. That's entertaining.
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thepro
haha, yeah that porno in the dumpster
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Disillusioned
Anything to do with Prawn-girl (Ebi-chan).
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Brainiac
Norika Fujiwara's wedding. Was that this year? I can't remember.
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timorborder
A certain music producer who used to be the national darling getting arrested for fraud. Look's like Tetsuro is off the Red and White invitation list this year (hah).
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smartacus
I'm always appalled at what passes for entertainment news in Japan's magazines, papers and TV wide shows. If the moderator bears with me, in other countries, some celebrities will appear in genuine newsworthy events, other than their music or movies, such as getting busted for various minor crimes, charity events, U.N. meetings, supporting presidential candidates, helping the New Orleans recovery efforts, etc. In Japan, we see none of that, partly because celebs are employees of their production agencies and merely get paid a salary. There is no money in Aya Ueto becoming a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, for example, but there is big money for her agency if she is signed up as a campaign girl for Softbank.
So we see the talents trotted out at various events promoting products, lighting up Christmas trees, as grapefruit ambassador, best nailist, etc. If I were to tell the editor of those magazines or TV wide shows not to send a reporter and cameraman to Ebi-chan's news conference because it is not really news and does merit coverage, he/she would look at me as if I had two heads.
So the answer to question of the biggest entertainment news in Japan is very small potatoes indeed.
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bdiego
That's just how the market works. In the US, you get paid $20 million just to smack your lips on a commercial. Damn.
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ptolemy
Becky trying to pass for an intellectual.
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Nessie
Tamori cheats death for one more year.
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GW
I think the porno was in the back of a dump truck not a dumpster & then there was the mcdonalds version..........
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pathat
Arisa Oda's career move.
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Ninjazilla
Ponyo.That one cartoon is better then anything produced on tv or the music scene thats for sure.
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tokyotom
Mono Yamamoto for being so incredibly stupid scottish saying "fool me once, shame on you" "fool me twice, shame on me" married salarymen still lining up for a crack at her
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