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Am I gonna have to make a 'Nagl PV Fridays' for Arama because Japanese rappers really be doing the most.
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Am I gonna have to make a 'Nagl PV Fridays' for Arama because Japanese rappers really be doing the most.
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Arama, you read for this? MARIA debuts MV for 'Helpless Hoe'
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Am I gonna have to make a 'Nagl PV Fridays' for Arama because Japanese rappers really be doing the most.
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FFA (°◇°人°◇°)
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"POKEMON: THE ORIGINS" ANIME TO AIR OCTOBER 2ND, 2013
During the Pokémon Game Show, it was announced that a brand new anime will run to coincide with Pokémon XY. This anime is called Pokémon: The Origin, features Red & Green, is based directly on the games, and is to run from October 2nd. It's currently unclear if this is a special or a series but we'll provide information as soon as we can. Pictures courtesy of Dengeki
Source: Serebii
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OP IS SCREAMING RIGHT NOW. WHAT A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY PRESENT
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AKB48's Koisuru Fortune Cookie Samantha Thavasa Staff version
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Shock! marriage theory has emerged for Nakayama Yuma!
As reported by Tokyo Sports,
Ever since rumor has leaked that a super idol is getting married, many netizens have speculated that the married couple is either Kusanagi Tsuyoshi and Oshima Yuko OR Matsumoto Jun and Inoue Mao. But now it appears the married couple is NYC's Nakayama Yuma (19) andAmemiyaSayaka(17), a stage actress.
Apparently, Nakayama (under a different alias) tweeted to his close friends on twitter "I think we will enter the family registry by the 4th of this month" (from people who know both of them). Last August, "Weekly Woman" had reported Nakayama Yuma was caught on a date sharing an umbrella with a High School student younger than him. And Johnny & Associates had totally denied the rumor as groundless. But now, information has leaked that Nakayama Yuma and Amemiya Sayaka have registered their marriage on Aug 10 at Tokyo's Shibuya Ward Office.
But it seems J&A does not allow such marriage and has yet to announce or acknowledge their marriage. What is going to be the outcome of this disturbance?
Source: johnnys-watcher translated by
4miu_miuAnother couple thrown into the mix but can they get married if they're both under 20?I know the legal marriage age for male is 18 and for female is 16.
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Former NSYNC member to debut 21-member American girl group, inspired by AKB48
JC Chasez has entered new terrain, taking on the role of a musical "dad" to the many members of his new female pop project. The former *N SYNC member and solo artist recently teamed up with producer/songwriter Jimmy Harry to create Girl Radical, which currently features 11 vocalists who hail from a variety of backgrounds. "Alex Radical," for instance, is a former San Francisco ballet dancer who is the niece of actor Rob Schneider, while "Nyla Radical" studied theater in college before pursuing a career as a solo artist/keyboardist in the L.A. music scene.
Over the past year, Chasez and Harry have been hard at work assembling their team of female performers and bringing Girl Radical to life. In this exclusive first interview, Chasez walked Billboard through his vision for the pop endeavor.
Billboard: How did Girl Radical come about?
Chasez: Jimmy and I have been friends for many years, and we're always writing and submitting things for different artists. We always talked about starting a project from scratch, but we didn't know what it was going to be. One day we ended up working with this Japanese artist and she showed us this thing called AKB48. Basically it's a Japanese group that started with 48 members and has fluctuated anywhere from 48 to 60. We saw one of their music videos and I was blown away. It was like this army on stage performing, and I've always been attracted to the spectacle. The next day we went back into the studio to start writing another song. I was like, ‘We should build our own pop group, but in our own way,' and Jimmy agreed.
JC CHASEZ IN JUNE 2013
How did you select the girls for the project?
Once we told two or three people about it and they were into the idea and wanted to be a part of it – it was kind of like, ‘All right. Let's go for it.' We built a foundation from there. We put a blurb on the Internet and passed out flyers at different places. We just wanted to see what people thought at first. We have 11 members right now. There is a rough number in our head. We are thinking that 21 might be the magic number, but again, it's constantly evolving. We believe in the talent that we have right now.
Are you going to have every girl sing on every song?
In background vocals, yes, because what we learned from the Japanese thing is that the choruses are big. In the songs that we've been doing, they've [done] these big-sounding choruses, so that's what we've kept in mind. That being said, not everybody is going to get a lead/verse part on every song. It's kind of like playing checkers – we'll plug this one in here, we'll plug this one in here, and so on. Every one of them will step forward at one time or another when it's their time.
Check Out Our Long-Read on JC Chasez's Solo Career
Why did you decide to go with an "Just a Girl" cover for the debut?
We just like the feel of it. It's a good jumping-off point as far as a cover tune goes. There are 11 girls, and they can each represent their femininity or toughness or however you take their performance. We shot the video with Steven Barston, and we want you to get a look at the girls, so it's a clean white wall. For the first couple of videos, we'd like to keep them very simple because you have to get to know them first.
Have they recorded any original tunes yet?
We have three originals that we really feel strongly about. We wrote an original called "Don't Get Me Wrong," which we love. We wrote it with Jimmy, myself, and this woman named Danielle Brisebois, who did quite a bit of writing for Natasha Bedingfield… We shot a video for that song, so we'll have that ready to go when we feel like the moment's right -- after the cover lives to gauge a response.
Are there plans to make a full album and eventually take Girl Radical on the road?
Absolutely. First, we're releasing the cover and will get America's take on it. We want to let people talk to us because we've been in this bubble for a year trying to put all these pieces together – trying to figure out how to make this many voices work together, and learning to make these formations work together. Coming from my pop background, I'm very much a perfectionist, so I want to make sure that it's right because you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Then we'll go from there. It's about developing [the music] instead of just slapping a sticker on it and pushing it out there. I don't want a hard sell.
Do you see Girl Radical being like the Spice Girls in a sense where fans ask each other, "Which Girl Radical girl are you?"
100 percent. There's no denying that. And even when I was in the band, the girls would be like, 'I'm a Justin guy. I'm a JC guy. I'm a Joey guy. I'm a Lance guy…' That's just natural and the way it goes.
What are you envisioning for the live show?
A spectacle! If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in. For me, the bigger the better -- that's essentially why I am working in a group that is bigger. I would love to have a stage show that is bigger. If you're going to go out, you might as well go big.
I don't think it won't work but who knows what tomorrow will bring, no even believed AKB48 will be this successful 7 years ago
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Schools remove famed manga due to ‘brutal’ portrayal of Japanese troops
MATSUE--Copies of “Hadashi no Gen” (Barefoot Gen), an internationally renowned manga about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, have been pulled from school library shelves here due to graphic descriptions of violence committed by Japanese troops.
The city’s education board decided last December that children should not be allowed to freely check out “Hadashi no Gen” at the libraries of public elementary and junior high schools. But teachers can still use them as education materials.
“We are not going to remove the manga because it is an invaluable piece,” said Yasunori Furukawa, deputy head of the education board. “But we understand that it contains portions that warrant consideration as appropriate reading material for children.”
The board’s decision stems from the complaint of one citizen who said the manga described actions that were never committed by Japanese troops during the war.
Misayo Nakazawa, the widow of “Hadashi no Gen” creator Keiji Nakazawa, expressed dismay over the decision.
“It is incredible and I am saddened,” said Misayo, 70. “I am afraid that board members do not grasp the tragedy and pain that the war and the atomic bombing brought on.”
Nakazawa started the manga series in the Weekly Shonen Jump comic magazine in 1973. The story following the protagonist, Gen Nakaoka, was based on Nakazawa’s personal experiences of the 1945 atomic bombing.
He was 6 years old when the bomb exploded, killing his father, two sisters and a brother.
Published in book form, the 10-volume manga has sold more than 6.5 million copies and was translated into 20 languages.
Nakazawa died of lung cancer last December at the age of 73.
The work has been widely used as a tool to show the carnage caused by the nuclear blast. The Japanese government offered copies of the English-language version to signatories of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to drum up support for nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation efforts.
The city of Hiroshima adopted the manga in fiscal 2012 as a material for peace education.
But officials of the Matsue board of education found problems with the depictions of Imperial Japanese Army troops beheading and stabbing people in other Asian countries during the war. They decided these portrayals were too graphic for children.
At a meeting last December, the officials instructed principals to remove the copies from library shelves.
About 80 percent of Matsue’s 35 public elementary schools and 17 public junior high schools have copies of “Hadashi no Gen.”
In August last year, a Matsue citizen filed a petition with the municipal assembly to remove the copies from elementary and junior high schools.
“Children would gain a wrong perception of history because the work describes atrocities by Japanese troops that did not take place,” the citizen argued.
The education committee in the city assembly examined the matter last December. Committee members unanimously agreed that the assembly was not the right place to decide on the petition.
However, the education board took up the issue after several committee members said the manga contains text and illustrations that are extremely graphic, and that the board of education should take proper steps at its own discretion.
Misayo Nakazawa said her husband had insisted that he must share with children accounts of the miseries of the war and the atomic bombing to prevent a recurrence.
“I softened the depictions somewhat for children, but the brutality that actually took place went way beyond what was portrayed,” Misayo quoted her husband as saying.
Tomoko Watanabe, who represents the nonprofit peace group ANT-Hiroshima, said children should be allowed to read the manga without any restrictions.
“The work does describe brutal scenes, but children are intrinsically able to get to the essence of the story--that people should live despite the difficulties,” said Watanabe, 59. “We must trust the children and let them read as they want to.”
(This article was written by Hidekazu Fujiie and Hajimu Takeda.)
Source: Asahi
Today is my country's Independence Day, and I read this. I love you Japan, but NO!
It DID happen. It WAS WAR! Brutal things happen. Why don't you just face it? *sigh*
edit: thanks to the tips from doinkies, apparently it only happen in Matsue, Shimane prefecture. And actually, there's more reasonable people in Japan. Read more here, if you're interested.
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Trailer of Oshin + more details and a preview on the song by Flumpool and Mayday in the trailer
Background information:
- "Oshin" is based on the NHK drama series "Oshin," which ran from April 4, 1983 to March 31, 1984.
- Child actress Kokone Hamada was selected to play Oshin Tanimura after auditioning among 2471 other candidates.
- Filming began February 8, 2013 in Shonai Movie Village and Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture and finished April 3, 2013.
flumpool will be celebrating their 5th anniversary on October 1st. To commemorate this occasion, the band will release a new single titled "Tsuyoku Hakanaku / Belief ~Haru wo Matsu Kimi e~" on October 2nd.
"Tsuyoku Hakanaku" is a new song that is said to present what's to come for the band. Meanwhile, "Belief ~Haru wo Matsu Kimi e~" is a collaboration song with Mayday, and it will be used as the theme song for the movie 'Oshin'.
In order to write "Belief ~Haru wo Matsu Kimi e~", Yamamura Ryuta (Vo) read the movie's script. He was deeply moved by the protagonist's will to live.
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Juice=Juice release major debut pv Romance no tochuu
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Itano Tomomi and Akimoto Sayaka's graduation concerts to stream live via Nico Nico Namahousou
AKB48's Itano Tomomi and Akimoto Sayaka will be graduating from the group on August 27th and 28th respectively. Their graduation concerts will stream live via Nico Nico Namahousou: Q.
Both broadcasts will be broken up into two parts. The first will be a message from the fans from AKB48 Theater lobby, and the second will be the graduation concert itself.
The details can be seen below.
Date & Time: Tuesday, August 27th 5:00pm ~
URL: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv147009066
*Time is subject to change
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Date & Time: Wednesday, August 28th 5:00pm~
URL: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv147009287
*Time is subject to change
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Anyone know how we can watch the streaming? I want to watch both
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Jun Matsumoto and Mao Inoue kita━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━!!???? (Kyushu Sports←ｗｗｗ)
2011 Kouhaku pair ring
Influenced by Hana Yori Dango?
The fans just want these 2 to get married, right?
>> Don't you think Arashi's popularity will drop with this?
But I get the feeling that the MatsuJun wotas will go wild if they're really in a relationship w
So are they coming up with a sequel to HanaDan?
Everyone's going crazy saying MatsuJun this, MatsuJun that, but I don't see him as an ikemen at all. Could it be because I'm not watching his dramas that's why I don't think of him that way?
>> I heard that he's irresistible to people who have a fetish for lizards. I think he has a face that really gets mixed impressions.
>> Same as KimuTaku, because of their image in dramas
So is this really the one that Shuukan Josei reporter is referring to? (Related:http://majide2ch.blogspot.com/2013/08/super-popular-male-idol-to-get-married.html)
My MatsuJun...(pдq｀｡)Wahhh(pд･｀q)glance(pдq｀｡)sob
They must be doing something related to Hana Yori Dango. But the guy who played Tsukushi's dad passed away already...
I think one member of each group in Johnny's is allowed to get married and be in that "father position".
This marriage must be a ploy to stimulate some buzz surrounding MatsuJun as he seems to be the least popular member of Arashi.
>> Isn't their leader the least popular one?
>> Isn't it Aiba?
This is definitely bogus.
I don't think this'll happen unless she's pregnant.
I don't think MatsuJun suits Mao Inoue's personality. I think Sakurai is a better fit for her.
If a common person marries Arashi, I can't imagine the sort of pandemonium it would bring, so it must be someone from showbiz as well.
I think Mao Inoue's perfect. She's not super beautiful, not super popular, and I think she has a lot of factors that'll limit the flames to a minimum.
They seem really desperate to promote 24-jikan terebi
Real-life Hana Yori Dango
Isn't Mao Inoue balding already?
She should get married soon, a woman who's balding will have a hard time.
If you guys don't want her, I'll happily have Mao!
Sources:http://majide2ch.blogspot.com/2013/08/jun-matsumoto-and-mao-inoue-kita-kyushu.html
http://hayabusa3.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/news/1376795565/
https://twitter.com/5Hoge/status/368665477360279552
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Beckii Cruel: Independent Idol Documentary & PV for her latest single "Future Fantasy"
During the day, Rebecca Flint is your average 17 year old girl, Juggling exams with every day life. But when she's home, she's Beckii Cruel - internet and Japanese pop idol. Beckii Cruel: Independent Idol follows a 17 year old Beckii making her first single in Japanese in 3 years. It is directed by Adam Spence and was shot on the Isle of Man in January 2013.
Future Fantasy is an original song written in Japanese by Chelsea Chavis (remember Amerikajinmusume? she was basically a scandalous Beckii Cruel) and Matthew Pablo, arranged, produced and mastered by Sparkles* and recorded by Beckii. It's available worldwide on iTunes and Amazon today, August 18, 2013. Listen for free on Spotify.
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bow @ this queen
beckii shades arama and ignores the positivity from fans. typical tbh
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‘Pacific Rim’ Fails to Wow Japanese Audiences
TOKYO — In what was supposed to be one of its friendliest foreign markets, Japan, “Pacific Rim” ended its opening weekend, August 10-11, with a so-so sixth rank on the box office chart.
The Guillermo del Toro robots-versus-monsters epic, inspired by Japanese kaiju (monster) pics, scored $3.04 million from 134,506 admissions.
Meanwhile the other big Hollywood opener, “World War Z,” earned $3.38 million for the number two slot, selling 236,910 tickets.
The Hayao Miyazaki-directed toon “The Wind Rises” won its fourth weekend in a row, boosting its total to $57 million. For the year to date, this is second only to “Monsters University,” with a total of $68 million on 4.5 million admissions.
Prior to the opening of “World War Z,” both Brad Pitt and partner Angelina Jolie made the PR rounds in Japan. “Pacific Rim” helmer Guillermo del Toro and star Rinko Kikuchi also appeared before the fans, but local coverage centered on the charming nine-year-old Mana Ashida, who has a supporting role in the pic.
But neither Ashida nor Kikuchi have the star power of Pitt. Also, their pic lacked the sort of franchise branding that powered the many knock-offs and spin-offs of the original “Godzilla” (1954) to B.O. heights in Japan, until the series finally began to flag.
The last “Godzilla” pic, “Godzilla: Final Wars”(2004) finished with a mediocre $13 million at the Japanese BO and producer Toho has no immediate plans to make another, though it is distribbing the Hollywood “Godzilla” reboot that Gareth Edwards is helming and Warner and Legendary Pictures are producing. Release is skedded for May, 2014.
The okay performance of “Pacific Rim” in Japan stands in contrast to its powerful showing in China. There it held on to its number one spot for the second week, taking $33.9 million despite strong competition from local franchise movie “Tiny Times 2.0.” That lifted its cumulative total to $79.5 million.
Budgeted at nearly $200 million, “Pacific Rim” has earned $344 million worldwide.
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NYC's Yuma Nakayama got married!!? (TouSpo)→ Jani wotas attack the girl's Twitter account
The actual name of a high school girl was suddenly involved in a marriage fiasco involving a young Johnny's idol. Because of this, Johnny's fans attacked her Twitter account with slanders and complaints.
This is somehow related to the scoop that a "super popular male idol will be getting married", which was revealed by a women's magazine reporter on TV a few days ago. As all eyes shifted their attention to Johnny's big names, TouSpo got hold of a scoop on one of NYC's popular members as he has apparently submitted a marriage certificate last August 10. The partner, Sayaka Amemiya, is a high schooler who is a freelance stage actress. The girl was quick to announce on her blog in the morning of the 17th that "I have never met him, nor even talked to him", denying all allegations contained in the article.
Even still, angry fans bombarded her Twitter account with threats and complaints, which led to her answering each and every tweet with "sorry", "sorry for causing you trouble".
There are also a lot of people who have shown their support to her for doing such a troublesome task.
Jani-otas really are enemies of society
Sounds so troublesome...
The jealousy of these kimo-busu (gross-ugly) is so scaryyyyyyyyyyyy
Jani-otas sure are scary!
Jani-otas are disgusting, but so is Johnny's
These Jani-wotas are really shi+
Even that girl who was shot with Kenichi Okamoto's son had to apologize
But if this is true, there's no reason why she should be blamed.
She must be cute so that's why these Jani-wotas are jealous of her. I pity the girl.
I wonder why the fans of these male talents aim their anger towards the other party. I don't get it.
>> There are also fans of some female talents who direct their anger towards the male partner. I remember people targeting that Alan-someone when Minegishi's scandal broke out.
>> Some male fans of these female talents also go after the guy.
It's just that these Jani-wotas gang up on their targets which makes them stand out.
Even if this is a sudden marriage, there's no way they'd forgive one with a high schooler. I think that even in Johnny's, in the case of a shotgun marriage with a high schooler, they'd probably terminate him from the agency first then let him marry the girl properly once all the brouhaha has died down.
I really don't get why they have to slander and put all the blame on this girl if this was true
If you see these wotas as regular fans, they look insane, but if you view them as followers of some sort of religious following then you'd understand them.
The Jani-otas are all scums, but these countryside showbiz reporters who get to write all they want are more of a pain in the a$$
>> Each time they make false reports, they should all kneel down, bow, and apologize naked
So is this that scandal that's so huge it'll make your hands tremble? So they start bragging about it in a local Kansai TV show then a sports paper comes out with the name...
Now this is the "Massgomi"* at their best. They're going through all this trouble but as the rumors are spread throughout the Internet, their sales don't necessarily increase.
*"Masukomi" or "mass communications" is the Japanese term for mass media. "Masugomi" is a play on this, as "gomi" means "trash" and refers to how their media can really be rubbish at times.
http://ameblo.jp/rainysayaka0225/
>> Uwaaaa, all the pictures there are as scary as ghost pictures (´・ω・`)
>> She's like a deteriorated version of Risa Niigaki who also doesn't have any aura around her. I seriously want to know why they were led to believe that this is the girl that was married.
These Jani-babas are scary www
I thought Nakayama wasn't popular, but he still has his own share of fans, huh
But these AKB wotas almost never bash the male half of these romantic relationships with their members. On the other hand, these Jani-wotas will go all out on the girl.
>> That's more on the difference between a man and a woman, not necessarily on the difference between Johnny's and AKB.
These fat and ugly Jani-wotas should be the ones to apologize. Use your energy on something more productive.
http://ameblo.jp/rainysayaka0225/image-11544226703-12563208833.html
Stop bullying this pretty girl
>> You fool, cut it out
>> I got nervous there for an instant, I thought it was one of those scary gifs where it would just suddenly scream
So if this report about this Nakayama guy is false, then it would still either be Kusanagi-Oshima or Matsumoto-Inoue, huh
Never mind about making my hand tremble, if it's just between NYC and a stage actress, it won't even make my nose hair tremble.
Sources: http://majide2ch.blogspot.com/2013/08/nycs-yuma-nakayama-got-married-touspo.html#more
http://awabi.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1376734204/
http://japan.techinsight.jp/2013/08/johnnys_nyusekisoudou1308171511.html
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Chibi Maruko-chan Gets 1st Live-Action Remake in 5.5 Years
The first live-action adaptation of Momoko Sakura's Chibi Maruko-chan manga and anime in five and a half years will air this fall on Fuji TV. The family comedy follows a third-grade girl named Maruko in her daily life among her family and friends.
The first live-action television adaptation aired in April 2006 with Ei Morisako in the title role. It earned a 22.8% rating and spawned a sequel that earned a 17.7% rating that October. The following year, Ayaka Itou became the second live-action actress to assume the role in a full-fledged television series.
For the upcoming new adaptation, eight-year-old Maki Shinta — an actual third grader like Maruko — will play the lead role. The new version will be an omnibus of four stories, with some stories selected from the original manga and some brand-new plots.
Sakura serialized the original manga in Shueisha's Ribonshōjo manga magazine from 1986 to 1996. She launched a four-panel version in Japanese newspaper in 2007, and she ended that version in 2011.
The original manga inspired the Chibi Maruko-chan television anime that is consistently the #2 rated anime series after Sazae-san. The first anime series ran from 1990 to 1992, and the ongoing second series premiered in 1995. The 1,000th television anime episode aired last year.
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Husband clings to top of a car for 2.5 km to catch wife’s underwear thief
The scene witnessed in Kimitsu on Saturday night was no suspenseful movie being filmed. Although seeing a man clinging on top of a car is a usual scene in such film genre, what happened in Chiba Prefecture was an actual chase involving a man and a thief. The crime, however, was stealing a pair of women’s underwear hanging on a clothesline to dry. And the man who put on the kilometres-long stunt was the (very) dedicated husband.
As if Kimitsu had gone and become like Gotham City, the 32-year old husband also bothered to pull a Bruce Wayne act, clinging to the roof of a car owned by the culprit. The latter drove off for 2.5 kilometres as soon as he was found stealing the underwear of the wife. According to the husband, his wife’s undergarments had been going missing recently, and in order to identify and catch the thief, he decided to tie a fishing line and two bells to the garments. As expected, the thief returned, which was on Saturday around 10:30 PM. The rest led to the chase.
The underwear thief was identified as Hiroshi Ishikawa, 53 years old. The husband only managed to cling for 2.5 km before falling off the car’s roof. But he was able to identify the car and the license plate, which he immediately reported to the police. The husband, albeit the 2.5 km trip and fall, only sustained a minor leg injury. Ishikawa is now facing a robbery charge.
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And here is the cover of the hotly anticipated Shukan Josei!
... ʅ(´◔౪◔)ʃ
There's no mention anywhere of the word 'marriage'. The only mention of Arashi is how the 5 trees in Hokkaido where they filmed their JAL CM has become a tourist attraction.
And in the fuller table of contents, still zilch, nada, zero.
A week of nervous anticipation and nothing... or maybe the almighty Johnny got the entire thing scrubbed clean after all.
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