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Beautiful 19 year old Japanese fashion model Meisa Kuroki 黒木メイサ recently won the BVLGARI Brilliant Dreams Award in Japan along with retired Japanese soccer player Hidetoshi Nakata who received the special honors award.

The annual BDA award held earlier this year in March by the European jewelry maker had previously been given to such top class stars as Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, Jpop diva Ayumi Hamasaki and Olympic Champion figure skater Shizuka Arakawa 荒川 静香. For the awards ceremony, Meisa looked gorgeous wearing a diamond ring, necklace and earring set with a combined value of over 60 million Yen.

Meisa Kuroki BDA Award 2008

Japanese guitar band GAUCHE ゴーシュ formed back in 2002. They have released one single, one MAXI single, and two mini albums. The second mini album, Blue World 青ノ世界 Aoi no Sekai was released in March earlier this year

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The album contains seven excellent tracks of blaring indie rock led by lead singer and guitarist Hiroyoshi Nagashima 長島弘佳, guitarist Manabu Nose 能勢学, bassist Akira Abe 安部光 and female drummer Michiyo Takashi 高師三知代. The best tracks on the album are Uta Koe no Shomei 唄声の証明 Harurifu and ハルリフ Crawl. This band has huge potential and any band with a female drummer is way cool!

GAUCHE music videos

Uta Koe no Shomei

One of the sexiest videos we’ve seen so far on Japansugoi, a beautiful AV idol Akiho Yoshizawa 吉沢明歩 eating strawberries and drinking milk.  Bet all you otaku want a Japanese girlfriend like her!

Okamase Maidokuro: The Awesome Corpse Housemaid メイドクロ is a very short 25 second anime podcast from the folks at Pipya.com ぴっぷや “Bad Animation, Good Communication” which stars a “cute” anime corpse house maid who kills her clients in new and different ways.

Done in the four-frame classic Japanese comic style and broadcast every Wednesday at 11.30pm on iTunes , there have been 15 video podcasts thus far though you can also watch them on youtube here.

Maidokuro Videos

Toilet

Helping wash and dry the dishes after your Japanese girlfriend has cooked a wonderful meal for you will score you lots of points.  Being otaku, you can always show off your collection of Star Wars themed Japanese tea towels from Japan’s Heart Art Collection, Ltd.

A set eight towels with Star Wars themes is available including R2-D2 jettisoning over a traditional Mount Fuji with ocean waves woodblock print, a clone trooper helmet doubling as a Japanese shrine bell, Artoo and Threepio under a sakura (cherry blossom) tree, and Darth Vader and Yoda in intricate scrollwork patterns.

If that doesn’t impress her, trying giving her a ride home in your landwalker.

tea towel source 

When you live in Japan or visit your girlfriend’s Japanese family there are is a definitive Japanese etiquette on entering a home. All Japanese homes follow these rules such as removing shoes before entering a house or room and these even apply to gaijin or foreigners. Specifically on entering a home, all guests should take off their shoes at the entrance of the house known as the genkan 玄関. Upon entry, shoes are usually turned to face the door so they can be slipped on easily when leaving.

Your Japanese host will provide slippers to be worn for the duration of your visit. There are two exceptions to this rule a) when entering a Japanese style room with a tatami floor, the slippers are removed and you will walk around in socks or bare feet and b) when you enter the toilet or bathroom where the slippers are again removed and left outside the door in exchange for a pair designated for the bathroom.

Follow these simple rules to avoid embarrassing your Japanese girlfriend and her father won’t think you’re a heathen barbarian.

genkan video

Korean pop star Se7en 세븐 ( Choi Dong Woo 최동욱 崔東昱) is pretty popular in Japan especially among Japanese ladies. With his good looks. strong voice and concert tours in 2005, 2006 and 2007, he has built up a fan base within Japan. He’s also done the rounds of appearing on Japanese game shows and variety shows and in a very funny Japanese dating game show last year, comedian Sayaka Aoki 青木 さやか has to complete several “missions” with her date (Se7en) like she has to hug se7en and have se7en hug her back etc.  First dates in Japan don’t normally end in marriage proposals but watch part 3 to see what happens! Sorry, but no subs necessary to enjoy.

Japanese dating show with Korean pop star Se7en as the guest

part 1