Miwa

• Official site (Japanese)
• Tristone Management site (Japanese)
• Official blog (Japanese)

miwa is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She debuted in 2010 with the single “Don’t Cry Anymore”, which was used as the theme song for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta hi. Miwa was signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan during her third year of high school. She debuted as an artist in 2010, while attending Keio University.  Her debut single, “Don’t Cry Anymore,” was chosen to be used for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi’s theme song.  The single was a minor commercial success, breaking the top 20 on Oricon’s single charts and being certified by the RIAJ as selling 100,000 full length cellphone downloads a month after its release.  In April 2010, the song won the award for best drama theme song at the 64th The Television Drama Academy Awards, beating out songs such as Arashi’s “Troublemaker” and Mr. Children’s “Hanabi.” miwa released her second single, “Little Girl,” in late June.  Her third single, “Change,” was the twelfth opening theme song for the Bleach anime,  and was a top 10 single.  For the animated film adaptation of Eto Mori’s novel Colorful, miwa covered two songs by famous Japanese artists. Yutaka Ozaki’s “Boku ga Boku de Aru Tame ni” was used as the film’s image song, and The Blue Hearts’ song “Aozora” was used as the ending theme song of the film. Both songs were released as digital downloads on August 12, 2010.  miwa considers her favorite Western musicians to be Sheryl Crow, Deep Purple, Carole King, Avril Lavigne and Taylor Swift. Her favorite Japanese musicians are Aiko, Angela Aki, Radwimps and Yuki. miwa previously been a DJ on monthly radio show on All Night Nippon, miwa no All Night Nippon R (miwaのオールナイトニッポンR), every third Monday from 3:00am to 5:00am. It has since then been changed into a weekly show, now known as miwa no All Night Nippon (miwaのオールナイトニッポン), airing every Tuesday (early Wednesday) from 1:00am to 3:00am.   miwa released her first album Guitarissimo on April 6, 2011 (was scheduled to release a week earlier on end of March but was delayed due to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunamiand its aftereffects). The charts performance was miwa’s best overall: the album reached No. 1 in the Oricon’s album charts, making miwa the first Heisei period-born solo singer to reach a No. 1 on the album charts in the history of the Oricon.

Sayuri Sugawara

Official site Sayuri Sugawara (菅原 紗由理 Sugawara Sayuri?, born June 29, 1990) is a Japanese singer. She has recently gained recognition outside of Japan for the song “Because You’re Here” (君がいるから Kimi ga Iru Kara?), the theme song for the Japanese version of Final Fantasy XIII, In January 2008, Sayuri Sugawara participated in the “7 Days Audition” and the “30 Days Audition”. She won both auditions and received a contract with For Life Music Entertainment. On December 17, 2008, Sugawara released her first song digitally through Chaku Uta; Destiny is sampled from Franz Liszt’s classical masterpiece Liebesträume and featured rapper Feros. In April 2009, Sugawara released her debut mini-album, Kimi ni Okuru Uta. Following the digital success of her debut song, Sugawara released her debut single Ano Hi no Yakusoku on September 30, 2009. On September 3, 2009, at the Final Fantasy XIII premiere, it was announced that she would perform its theme song, Kimi ga Iru Kara. Composed by Masashi Hamauzu, Sugawara performed the song with a live orchestral accompaniment at the premiere. A single for Kimi ga Iru Kara was released on December 2, two weeks before the release date of Final Fantasy XIII. Her first album, First Story, was released on January 27, 2010. And peaked at number 14 on the Oricon charts, selling 10,217 copies. Sugawara’s third single, Sunao ni Narenakute, released May 19, 2010 was used as the insert song for the drama of the same title: Sunao ni Narenakute, starring Eita and Ueno Juri. Also on September 1, 2010, Sugawara’s fourth single, “Suki to Iu Kotoba”, was used as the theme song to the 2010 version of the drama; Kasouken no Onna. On October 16 and 24, Sugawara held her first live tour at Shinsaibashi and Shibuya Club Quattro titled “Sugawara Sayuri Live Tour – The One”. And also held school festival live tours in November at Touhou, Kitasato and Momoyama Universities. On December 22, 2010, Sugawara released her second mini album, Close To You, starting the second chapter of her career. Starting January 4, 2011 and for the next six months, Sayuri will be a regular on FM Osaka as a DJ. The pre-recorded performance will be broadcast every other week on a Tuesday night at 9 o’clock. The show is titled; “E∞Tracks Selection, Sugawara Sayuri no Osaka Manyuu Nikki” [Sugawara Sayuri’s Osaka Pleasure Trip Diary] After releasing her latest mini-album, Close To You, in December 2010, Sugawara embarked on a mini live tour titled “Close To You” in late February 2011, with performances at Club Quattro in Shinsaibashi on February 25 and Nagoya’s E.L.L. on March 2, finally, the final tour took place in Akasaka on March 4, 2011. Over 1,000 fans packed into Akasaka Blitz for the final concert of the tour

Juri Ueno

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• Juri Ueno at the Internet Movie Database

Juri Ueno (上野 樹里 Ueno Juri?, born May 25, 1986) is a Japanese actress from Kakogawa, Hyogo, Japan. She was one of six actors to receive the “Newcomer of the Year” prize at the Japanese Academy Awards in 2005 for her role in Swing Girls. She is also known for her starring role as the title character in the live-action adaptation of Nodame Cantabile for which she won “Best Lead Actress” at the 51st Television Drama Academy Awards in 2007, and as Ruka Kishimoto in Last Friends for which she was voted “Best Supporting Actress” at the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix[1] and the 57th Television Drama Academy Awards in 2008. In 2004, Ueno took on a supporting role in TBS’s romance drama, Orange Days, and co-starred in 2005 with Takuya Kimura in Fuji TV’s romantic comedy Engine as Misae Hoshino. She also appeared withKazuya Kamenashi in the special television movie of Kinda’ichi Shōnen no Jikenbo the same year taking over the role of Miyuki Nanase from Anne Suzuki.   Ueno’s popularity rose further when she was cast as Megumi Noda (“Nodame”) in the 2006 live-action television adaptation of the popular manga Nodame Cantabile. Co-starring opposite Hiroshi Tamaki, the series’ 11-episode run was a success with an average viewership rating of 18.79% with the season finalé garnering 21.7% of the viewership share for its time slot. Ueno’s portrayal as the eccentric and disorganized but yet extremely affable and talented pianist won her “Best Lead Actress” at the 51st Television Drama Academy Awards while the show won “Best Drama”. The show was also recognized overseas at the 2nd Seoul Drama Festival where it was awarded “Best Miniseries”. Ueno and Tamaki reprised their roles in 2007 in the two-part special, Nodame Cantabile Shinshun Special in Europe, which chronicles their individual struggles to achieve success on Europe’s storied classical music stage whilst being away from each other.

In 2008, Ueno reunited with Nodame co-stars, Eita and Asami Mizukawa, in Fuji TV’s drama, Last Friends, as Ruka Kishimoto, a talented motocross racer with a hidden secret she cannot discuss with friends or family. Taeko Asano, the screenwriterof Last Friends praised Ueno’s acting of Ruka, stating that Ueno is a “natural genius” and that she became “the character itself”.  Ueno won “Best Supporting Actress” at the 12th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix and The 57th Television Drama Academy Awards for her role.  She was recognised as “Best Student Voice Actress” at the 2008 MTV Student Voice Awards for her role in Wanko. The Japanese version of Vogue named her as one of the “Women of the Year 2008”. On December 9, 2008, it was announced that Ueno would again reprise her role as “Nodame” in a new Nodame Cantabile two-movie sequel slated for release in 2010. Filming is set to start in May 2009. On January 25, 2010, it was announced that Ueno would be the lead in the 2011 NHK Taiga drama Gō based on an original script by Atsuhime writer Kumiko Tabuchi (田渕 久美子 Tabuchi Kumiko^?). with filming starting in August 2010. The series is Ueno’s first role in a historical drama. Gō is NHK’s 50th Taiga drama, and only its 10th drama with a woman as the main character. On April 15, 2010, Ueno took the role of “Haru” in the spring J-Drama Sunao ni Narenakute which tells a story of the blossoming friendship between five people through Twitter, along with Eita, Hero Jaejoong, Megumi Seki and Tetsuji Tamayama. On September 11, 2010, Ueno guest starred in the Korean variety show MBC’s We Got Married Season 2 while promoting Nodame Cantabile – The Movie and paid a visit to SNSD’s Seohyun and CN Blue’s Jung Yong Hwa

Gackt Camui

Official website (Japanese, English, Korean, Chinese) Gackt Camui (神威 楽斗 Kamui Gakuto?, born July 4, 1973), known solely as GACKT, is a Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, actor, and author. He has been active since 1995, first as a vocalist for the defunct visual kei rock band Malice Mizer, and from 1999 as a solo artist. He has released nine studio albums, and with forty-one singles released holds the male soloist record for most top ten singles in Japan music history. His single “Returner (Yami no Shūen)”, released on June 20, 2007, was his first and only single to reach the number one spot on the Oricon charts.  He became the first Japanese artist to release his music catalog on iTunes in October 2007. Besides that, in modern entertainment industry his music has been used as theme songs for various video games, anime films and television series. In addition to his music, Gackt acted in few films, including the film he wrote, Moon Child, and his international debut Bunraku, and series such as the NHK drama Fūrin Kazan. He also performed live in a theatre stage run.

Kyoko Fukada

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Kyoko Fukada (深田 恭子 Fukada Kyōko?, born November 2, 1982) is a Japanese actress and singer. In Japan, her name is sometimes contracted to the nickname Fukakyon. She won the award for Best Actress at the Yokohama Film Festival for Kamikaze Girls. Fukada Kyoko was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She has a younger sister. Fukada debuted in 1997 with her first appearance in the television drama Sore ga Kotae da! as Kazune. Fukada appeared in her first movie Ring 2 as Kanae Sawaguchi in 1999 and in later in School Day of the Dead, released in 2000. That same year, she graduated from Horikoshi High School. In 2002, she made an appearance in Dolls as Haruna. Fukada is also a J-pop singer and her debut single “The Last Fruit” led to her album Dear, both released in 1999. Albums

• Dear… (1999)
• Moon (2000)
• Universe (2001)
• Flow: Kyoko Fukada Remixes (2002)

Singles

• 1999.05.19 “Saigo no Kajitsu”
• 1999.09.01 “Easy Rider”
• 2000.02.02 “Kirameki no Shunkan”
• 2000.07.19 “How?”
• 2001.06.06 “Swimming”
• 2001.10.03 “Kimi no Hitomi ni Koishiteru”
• 2002.05.22 “Route 246”

Eri Kamei

Morning Musume: Official Hello! Project profile (Japanese) Eri Kamei (亀井 絵里 Kamei Eri?, born December 23, 1988 in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan) was a member of the Japanese pop group Morning Musume. She joined in late 2003 as a sixth generation member along with Miki Fujimoto, Sayumi Michishige, and Reina Tanaka. She graduated on December 15, 2010 in Yokohama Arena along with Junjun and Linlin. In 2004, Kamei appeared in the 2004 Hello! Project shuffle units unit H.P. All Stars. She was also involved in Morning Musume Sakuragumi when Morning Musume was split into two groups. In 2009, Kamei was put in the group Tanpopo as the fourth generation along with fellow Morning Musume member Aika Mitsui, Berryz Kobo member Yurina Kumai and Cute member Chisato Okai. On August 8, 2010, Kamei’s graduation from Hello! Project was announced by Tsunku on his blog and at that day’s Hello! Project concert. Due to her suffering from atopic dermatitis, she was unable to continue her activities and therefore graduated on the last day of the Autumn Tour in 2010.

Sayumi Michishige

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• Official Hello! Project profile (Japanese)

Sayumi Michishige (道重 さゆみ Michishige Sayumi?, (named after Sayumi Horie)[1] born July 13, 1989 in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan) is a sixth generation member of the J-pop group Morning Musume and has the third longest tenure of any member in the group (behind Risa Niigaki and Ai Takahashi and tied with Reina Tanaka). As of May 18, 2012 right after Risa Niigaki’s graduation, Tsunku announced on Ultra Smart 2012 concert that she is the new leader of Morning Musume. She joined Morning Musume in 2003 along with Eri Kamei, Miki Fujimoto and Reina Tanaka, which all made their debuts with Morning Musume in the group’s nineteenth single, “Shabondama”. In 2005 she was assigned as mentor to 7th generation member Koharu Kusumi, until Kusumi’s graduation in December 2009. Michishige was also a member of the Hello! Project unit Ecomoni, along with former Morning Musume member Rika Ishikawa.

Aika name means love song

Aika name means love song

Local Origin of Name: Japanese
From the name Aika

Meaning: Love Song

Emotional Spectrum • It’s more fun to be happy than sad is her credo.
Personal Integrity • Friends know that Aika can be called on in a crisis.
Personality • When she is not talking, she is laughing.
Relationships • It may take some time to get to know Aika.
Travel & Leisure • Who better to travel with than Aika?
Career & Money • Handling a family and a job are easy for Aika.
Life’s Opportunities • Not a wheeler-dealer, Aika examines business deals carefully.

” Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained by a righteous life. ”

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Keiko Kitagawa

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Keiko Kitagawa (北川 景子 Kitagawa Keiko^?, born August 22, 1986) is a Japanese actress and former model. She was an exclusive model for the Japanese Seventeen magazine from late 2003 to mid 2006, and left modeling when she left the magazine. Her first acting role was Sailor Mars in the Sailor Moon live action show Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003-4), and after her role in the film Mamiya Kyōdai, she left modeling to concentrate on acting. She has appeared in several films, including The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) and Handsome Suit (2008), and has played leading roles in the TV Dramas Mop Girl (2007), Homeroom on the Beachside (2008), Buzzer Beat (2009) and Lady Saigo no Hanzai Profile (2011). Kitagawa was born on August 22, 1986 in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and has a younger brother.  She grew up in Kobe, and lost many friends in the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995.  As a child, she wanted to be a doctor, but by the time she reached high school she was uncertain as to whether she could do that, and not sure what to do in the future. At around this time, she was scouted by a talent agency, and she decided to try the entertainment world. Her parents were initially opposed, but they gave their permission, on two conditions: that she give up if she was making no progress within a year, and that she put her studies first and graduate from university.  She has kept the second half of the promise, graduating in commercial science from Meiji University in Tokyo in March 2009. The one year time limit did not prove to be a problem. Within a week or so of joining an agency, she had been selected as both a model and an actress.  She was chosen as Miss Seventeen 2003,  which led to her working as a model with the Japanese Seventeen until she graduated from the magazine in September 2006. In the latter part of the run, she had her own regular feature, “Keiko’s Beauty Honey”. As an actress, she was given the role of Rei Hino in the live action television series of Sailor Moon, which began her acting career. Her first significant film role was in Mamiya Kyōdai, and as result of the influence of the director, Yoshimitsu Morita, she decided to concentrate on acting rather than modeling. She initially concentrated on films, including the leading roles in Cherry Pie and Dear Friends. In late 2007, she had her first leading role in a TV drama, in the late-night drama Mop Girl. In 2008, she was given the role of the heroine in Homeroom on the Beachside, Fuji Television’s Monday 9pm drama for the summer season. As this is the headline drama slot for a major network, it represented a major step forward for her career.  She describes herself as a stay-at-home person, and likes watching DVDs, listening to music, and reading books. When asked what she would do if the world was going to end tomorrow, she said “read books”.  She also likes swimming, particularly backstroke.  She has a pet (male) cat, called Jill.  At present, she is managed by Stardust Promotion.   She has appeared in the films Mizu ni Sumu Hana (2006), Mamiya Kyōdai (2006), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Cherry Pie (lead role) (2006), Dear Friends (lead role) (2007), Sono Toki ha Kare ni Yoroshiku (2007), Southbound (2007),Heat Island (2007), Handsome Suit (2008), Orion in Midsummer (2009), I’ll Pay (2009), After the Flowers (lead role) (2010), and Matataki (lead role) (2010), and will appear in Elevator to the Scaffold (2010).  She appeared in the TV dramas Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003-4), Mop Girl (lead role) (2007), Homeroom on the Beachside (2008), Buzzer Beat (2009), and Moon Lovers (2010). 

Amaia name means the end

Amaia name means the end
Local Origin of Name: Basque/ Japanese
From the name Amaia

Meaning: the end or night rain (japanese )

Emotional Spectrum • Her happiest times are with her loved ones.
Personal Integrity • In a world of deceit, Amaia stands for truth and integrity.
Personality • To make it short, Amaia is a good sport.
Relationships • People like Amaia because of
her personality. Travel & Leisure • Will find new ways to spice up old hobby.
Career & Money • Investments made early keep Amaia comfortable in the golden years.
Life’s Opportunities • The right career is the key to financial success for her.

” Rejoice in the Lord and be glad. ”

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