JapanSugoi

If you’re already lucky enough to have a Japanese girlfriend and living in Japan, you know she’ll be giving you chocolates on Valentines day.  What will you be giving her? Roses? Lingerie?

Want to impress your Japanese girlfriend (or the sexy Kana Tsugihara!) by taking her to your own exclusive island getaway? You can now bid for your very own uninhabited Japanese island, courtesy of the Chugoku Local Finance Bureau who want to auction off  Mitsuko Island, situated in the Seto Inland Sea, 0.6 miles from the coast of the Hiroshima Prefecture. The island is reportedly being sold as part of a national effort to liquidate unused state land.

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Japanese band Monkey Majik  is well respected in Japan and the group  has collaborated on singles with Jpop artists M-flo, SEAMO 高田 尚輝, and the Yoshida Brothers 吉田兄弟. In July 2007 they released their fourth full-length album “Sora wa maru de” 空はまるで, (roughly translated into “the sky is so” ) in which the title song “Sora wa maru de” became the first song in Japanese history to reach #1 on USEN Request Chart before being released.  It eventually reached number 3 on the Oricon charts.

Check out this relaxing tune and video

Monkey Majik Sora Wa Maru de music video

If you’re a regular reader of Japansugoi, you will know we post a lot of sexy Japanese bikini gravure グラビアアイドル models like  Yukie Kawamura, Sayuki Matsumoto and Kana Tsugihara.  All these models have been featured on Japan’s most popular and established gravure idol magazine Sabra サブラ (like FMH, Loaded, Stuff in western countries)

Sabra was published by Shogakukan as a bi-weekly from June 2000 to October 2007 but since then the magazine became a monthly (coming out on the 25th of every month).  There are also several Sabra web sites  Read more...

Japanese AV idol Maria Ozawa 小澤マリア takes a short break from her movies and appearances and becomes a sex therapist with her new book called Tongue lashing sex 言葉責めセックス .  The 192 page 780 Yen book was published in November last year is a frank instruction manual intended to convey to men just what women want.

Maria Ozawa’s advice is that Japanese men need to communicate more expressively through words that will build to an exciting and subsequently satisfying experience. She believes carefully chosen words can stimulate a woman’s brain and bring about a positive feeling.  Read more...

At the recent Eco-Products 2009, Japanese companies Oriental Co Ltd and Nakabayashi exhibited their revolutionary White Goat recycling machine which makes toilet paper from shredded office paper by just adding paper and water. The machine has a shredding machine built inside it and the shredded office paper first goes into a hopper where it is untangled in small batches and then dissolved in a pulper.

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Valentines day is coming up soon and thinking about what to get your Japanese girlfriend? Fans of  21 year old Japanese model and actress Nozomi Sasaki 佐々木 希can now purchase the latest Seiko’s ladies watch Tisse SWFA031 which she helped design. The 35g watch featuring floral and heart motifs and is called the Seiko Tisse Nozomi Limited Edition.

The series feature colors and motifs that women prefer: numbers 3, 6, 9, 12 are heart-shaped, the clock face is decorated with Parisian-like floral patterns and a pink-gold plated version is also available. Ten models are currently on sale at 31,500 yen. Five additional solar charged models are also available. Cost is 28,350-34,650 Yen.  Read more...

Pretty 23 year old Japanese fashion model Saki Namba (Saki Nanba) 難波 さき  is an exclusive model for Happie NUTS magazine.  The 23 year old from Hyogo who likes singing karaoke, playing video games and watching DVDs recently featured in the new music video Tokyo Tower 東京タワー by Jpop singer  GOKIGEN SOUND ごきげんさん.

GOKIGEN SOUND music video Tokyo Tower

Like many other fashion models she wants to have a singing career of her own and has sung on a couple of tracks for “gyaru” related compilation albums such as  Campus Summit.  Read more about Saki Namba at her blog here.  Read more...

Learning Japanese?  Hiragana Megane is an excellent online tool (furigana injector) for those of you who enjoy reading Japanese news articles and blogs but struggle to remember the readings of every kanji you come across.  With Hiragana Megane all you have to do is enter the URL of the website or blog you want to add furigana 振り仮名 to and click on the Go button.

The website/blog will then now show furigana above all of the kanji in the text.  There are some  other alternatives such as usingthe Mozilla plug-in Rikaichan, and the slow-and-tedious method of copy/pasting unknown kanji into an online dictionary but we personally find Hiragana Megane quite useful.  Read more...

The world’s youngest guitar pro is 9 year old Yuto Miyazawa 宮澤佑門.  This tokyo born  rock guitar child prodigy was discovered by Steve Bernstein, president of Zenbu Media in December 2007  and was named  “The Youngest Professional Guitarist” by Guinness Book of World Records in August, 2008.

Since his discovery, Miyazawa has had the opportunity to play with numerous music legends over the past year such as, G. E. Smith, Les Paul, Galactic, Deep Banana Blackout, Ozzy Osbourne and many more.  Read more...