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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(group)Ribbon was a Japanese pop (or J-pop) group which consist of Hiromi Nagasaku, Arimi Matsuno and Aiko Satoh. They released their first single on 6 December 1989, and their final album before they disbanded on 18 March 1994.
Kuroyume - WikipediaKuroyume (ﾂ坂?｢窶督ｲ, lit. Black Dream) is a Japanese rock group that formed in Nagoya during May 1991, initially consisting of lead singer and founding member Kiyoharu (1968-10-30), guitarist Shin and bassist Hitoki (1972-7-19). They began as a visual kei group, and carried these roots throughout their career with continued emphasis on appearance and packaging. The band had an extensive influence on the visual kei scene, being credited as inspirations by many of the bands of the late '90's visual kei boom.
The band was suspended for an indefinite period on January 29, 1999. The group will be officially disbanded on January 29, 2009.[1] Following the band's departure from existence, Kiyoharu formed SADS in 1999 and had gone solo by 2003.
Seiko Matsuda - WikipediaSeiko Matsuda (ﾂ渉ｼ窶彡ﾂ青ｹﾅｽq, Matsuda Seiko?, born Kamachi Noriko, ﾅ?窶披?决窶邸ﾅｽq, on March 10, 1962 in Kurume, Fukuoka) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. Due to her popularity in the 1980s and her long career, she has been dubbed the "Eternal idol" by the Japanese media.[
Yuko Hara - WikipediaYuko Hara (ﾅ陳ｴ窶燃ﾅｽq Hara Yūko, b. December 11, 1956 in Yokohama, nicknamed "Harabo") plays the keyboards for Southern All Stars.
She is married to Keisuke Kuwata and the mother of two boys. Her parents' home is a tempura restaurant in Yokohama.
Yo Hitoto - WikipediaYo Hitoto (ﾋ?ｪﾂ静づ｢w Hitoto Yō, born September 20, 1976) is a Japanese pop singer. Her mother is Japanese and her father is Taiwanese. She can speak three languages: Japanese, English, and standard Mandarin Chinese[citation needed]. Tae Hitoto is her older sister. Her name Hitoto is not her real surname, it is her mother's maiden name. She changed her name when she came to Japan. Her father died when she was very young, and her mother died when she was 16.
Soon after she was born in Tokyo, she moved to Taipei, and after she completed kindergarten in Taipei, she moved back to Tokyo and she has lived there ever since. She graduated from the department of Environmental Information of Keio University and participated in the Keio University a cappella group, K.O.E., during her days as a student. She used to have live concerts on the street with fellow K.O.E. members before she met Youichi Kitayama, a member of the famous Japanese a cappella group the Gospellers. Mr. Kitayama encouraged Yo Hitoto to compose her own music. Before this encounter, she had been a backup singer for many other artists.
To date, Yo Hitoto has released eleven single CDs and four albums.
Yo Hitoto's debut single "Morai naki" propelled her to stardom, and her songs enjoy wide popularity. Her clear voice and singing style, which is compared to the style of folk songs of Okinawa, attract many fans.
In Taiwan she is known for singing a Taiwanese folk song, which was included in her second album, as part of a Suntory beer commercial.
Yo Hitoto performs a song at the finale of the game, Dynasty Warriors 3.
In 2003 she debuted in her first film Café Lumière, as the lead character Yoko.
Her latest best of album sold over 700,000 copies(Triple-Platinum status in Japan), becoming her best selling album yet.
nagashima-san, not im@s related, but have you seen this?
"Kouya no Heath (The Heath of the Wasteland)" by AKINO
For MIKI
Because YouTube did not have it, please watch this in this.
http://zoome.jp/honey-star/diary/4
I'm not sure if this has been posted already or not ^^ my favorite haruka im@s PV
Slot machine - WikipediaPachisuro
Japan
Japanese slot machines, known as pachisuro, are a descendant of the traditional Japanese pachinko game. Slot machines are a fairly new phenomenon and they can be found in mostly in pachinko parlors and the adult sections of amusement arcades, known as game centers.
The machines are regulated with IC chips, and have six different levels changing the odds of a "777". The levels provide a rough outcome of between 90% to an astonishing 160% (200% if using skills). Indeed, the Japanese slot machines are "beatable". The parlor operators, naturally set most of the machines to collect money, but intentionally place a few paying machines on the floor so that there will at least someone winning, encouraging players on the losing machines to keep gambling.[citation needed]
Despite the many varieties of the machines, there are certain rules and regulations put forward by the "Security Electronics and Communication Technology Association", an affiliate of the National Police Association (NPA). For example, there must be three reels. Also, all reels must be accompanied by buttons which stop these reels, no more than 15 coins can be paid out per plays, credit meter cant go higher than 50, 3 coin maximum bet, etc.[citation needed]
Although a 15 coin payout may seem ridiculously low, the regulations allow "Big Bonus" (~400-->711 coins) and "Regular Bonus" modes (~110 coins) where these 15 coin payouts occur nearly continuously until the bonus mode finished. While the machine is in bonus mode, the player is entertained with special winning scenes on the LCD display, and energizing music is heard, payout after payout.
Three other unique features of Pachisuro machines are "Stock", "Renchan", and tenjō (窶弖ﾋ?､, tenjō?).ﾂ ﾂ On many machines, when enough money to afford a bonus is taken in, the bonus is not immediately awarded. Typically the game merely stops making the reels slip off the bonus symbols for a few games. If the player fails to hit the bonus during these "standby games", it is added to the "Stock" for later collection. Many current games, after finishing a bonus round, set the probability to release additional stock (gained from earlier players failing to get a bonus last time the machine stopped making the reels slip for a bit) very high for the first few games. As a result, a lucky player may get to play several bonus rounds in a row (a "Renchan"), making payouts of 5000, even 10,000 coins possible! The lure of "Stock" waiting in the machine, and the possibility of "Renchan" tease the gambler to keep feeding the machine. To tease him further, there is a tenjō (ceiling), a maximum limit on the number of games between "Stock" release. For example, if the tenjō is 1500, and the number of games played since the last bonus is 1490, the player is guaranteed to release a bonus within just 10 games.
Because of the "Stock", "Renchan", and tenjō systems, it is possible to make money by simply playing machines on which someone has just lost a huge amount of money. This is called being a "hyena". They are easy to recognize, roaming the aisles for a "Kamo" ( "******" in English) to leave his machine.
In short, the regulations allowing "Stock", "Renchan", and tenjō has transformed the Pachisuro from a low-stakes form on entertainment just a few years back to the hard-core gambling it has become in 2006. Many people may be gambling more than they can afford, and the big payouts also lure unsavory "hyena" types into the gambling halls.
To address these social issues, a new regulation (Version 5.0) has been adopted in 2006 which caps the maximum amount of "Stock" a machine can hold to around 2000--3000 coins worth of bonus games. Moreover, all Pachisuro machines must be re-evaluated for regulation compliance every 3 three years. Version 4.0 came out in 2004, so that means all those machines with the up to 10000 coin payouts will be removed from service by 2007. Only time will tell how these changes will affect the Japanese Pachisuro industry.
Haruko Momoi (桃井はるこ, Momoi Haruko?, born December 14, 1977) is a Japanese voice actress (seiyū) and singer/songwriter. She was born in Tokyo, Japan and is affectionately referred to as 'Halko' by her fans, a nickname she gave herself which is inspired by HAL 9000, the onboard computer of the Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Her blood type is O and she is 160 cm (5'3") tall.
My Little Lover - WikipediaMy Little Lover is a Japanese pop group belonging to the Avex Trax label as of the single "り・ぼん" (ribon) and the album akko. Previous releases were under Toy's Factory. The group used to have several members, but currently only Akko (Akiko Kobayashi 小林亜希子, born Akamatsu 赤松) the vocalist, remains.
The founding members were Akko (vocals) and Kenji Fujii 藤井謙二 (guitar), later joined by producer/songwriter Takeshi Kobayashi 小林武史 (keyboard) when they released their first album, evergeen. (The lyricist KATE on their early singles stands for "Kenji, Akko, and Takeshi Ensemble".) Akko and Kobayashi married in 1996 (divorced in 2008). Fujii retired from the group in 2002.
Yumi Matsutoya - WikipediaYumi Matsutoya (ﾂ渉ｼ窶戮窶價 窶燃ﾅｽﾃ?, Matsutōya Yumi?, born January 19, 1954), nicknamed "Yuming" (ﾆ停??ﾂーﾆ蓄ﾆ停?? Yūmin?), is an influential Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and pianist. She is renowned for her idiosyncratic voice, and live performances, and is an important figure in Japanese popular music.[1]
Her recording career has been commercially successful with more than 42 million records sold.[2] In 1990, her album The Gates of Heaven became the first album to be certified "2x million" by the RIAJ,[3] and she has had twenty-one #1 albums listed on the Oricon charts.[2]
After gaining experience as a session musician for several years, she debuted as a singer-songwriter in 1972. During her early career, she worked under her birth name Yumi Arai (ﾂ荒ﾋ?､ 窶燃ﾅｽﾃ?, Arai Yumi?). In 1975, Arai became known as a composer for "Ichigo Hakusho wo Mou Ichido", a commercially successful song recorded by the folk duo Bang Bang. She also gained popularity as a vocalist in the same year, through the success of "Ano Hi ni Kaeritai" that became her first number-one spot on the Japan's Oricon Charts.
After marrying her musical collaborator Masataka Matsutoya in 1976 and changing stage name, she has continued her recording career up until now. In addition to multiple hit singles, she has obtained enormous commercial success on the Japanese Albums Chart, particularly during the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s.