Sakura

Ketsumeishi (ケツメイシ ?) is a popular four-member Japanese pop and hip hop group that incorporates singing and rapping into their music. They have had several major hits in Japan, including "Sakura", which reached number two on the Oricon yearly chart for 2005 and was featured in the Japanese game Taiko no Tatsujin. Ketsumeishi is a Japanese word for a type of medical herbs made from the seeds of Senna obtusifolia, which is often used for Chinese purgative medicines.

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Funky Monkey Babys (ファンキー・モンキー・ベイビーズ ?) is a Japanese hip-hop band grouped in 2004 under the record company Dreamusic Inc. All members in the group are from Hachiôji, Japan. They are known for featuring celebrities in their promotion videos and singles jackets. Known as fan-mon (ファンモン) in short.

Their 4th single, "Lovin' Life", is a charted hit that recorded long sales and received multiple high rankings on the Japanese sales charts in the first half of 2007. In July of 2007, they released another single titled "Chippoke na Yūki." They are attracting fans with their high energy live performances all over Japan and continue to gain popularity on various popular media.

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Naotarō Moriyama (森山直太朗 ,Moriyama Naotarō?) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter born on April 23, 1976. His mother is Ryōko Moriyama, who is a well-known folk singer. He came out with the album "Kawaita Uta wa Sakana no Esa ni Chōdo Ii" in 2002, and distinguished himself by creating the song "Sakura".

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Allister was a pop punk band from Chicago, Illinois. The four-piece formed in 1996 and were one of the first bands to sign to Drive-Thru Records. Besides releasing three studio albums — 1999's Dead Ends and Girlfriends, 2002's Last Stop Suburbia, and 2005's Before the Blackout — Allister made a cameo appearance in the 2004 film Sleepover. On March 6, 2007, the band announced their intention to go on hiatus.

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ikimono-gakari (いきものがかり ?) is a Japanese rock band. They record on Sony Music Japan's EPIC Records label.

The band was formed in Kanagawa Prefecture in February 1999 by Hotaka Yamashita and Yoshiki Mizuno, and was later joined by lead vocalist Kiyoe Yoshioka in December the same year.

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Crystallize said:

It's actually not just you in Japan who have cherry flowers,
even if ours blooms a lot later of course, somewhere in the middle of may or so.
But outside my mothers house we even have 5 big pink cherry flower trees,
they are lovely when they bloom, even if they don't bloom that long every year ...

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