JapanSugoi

Japanese fashion magazine Anecan 姉キャン, which targets Japanese women in their late twenties and thirties has been a success since it first launched.   The “older sister” magazine to CanCam, it features models Eriko Kumazawa 熊澤 枝里子, Hitomi Sawano 澤野 ひとみ,  Keiko Mayama 真山景子, Moe Oshikiri 押切もえ, Reiko Takagaki 高垣麗子, Sachi Suzuki 鈴木サチ, Yuri Ebihara 蛯原友里 and singer Alan.   Past models include Asami Usuda,  Maimi Okuwa and Yoko Horiuchi.

For last month’s cover, models Sachi Suzuki 鈴木サチ ( top photo left) and Moe Oshikiri 押切もえ (top photo right) were featured and from the clip below, you can see they are professionals when it comes to posing.  Which model do you like more?

In 2005, Japanese graphic artist Kentaro Nagai was struck by the play on words between peace and piece in relation to global politics. This concept was expanded in a exhibition entitled Twelve Animals, for the Japan Media Arts Festival at the National Art Center in Tokyo in February earlier this year.  The theme concept was “piece together for peace” where Nagai rearranged outlines of the world’s landmasses into the Twelve Animals of the Chinese Zodiac.

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How much of a Gachapin otaku are you?  Do you have the Gachapin netbook?  When showing off that laptop outdoors, you should be wearing your fashionable special edition Converse All Stars Gachapin Hi コンバース/オールスター ガチャピン released last summer by Converse. The bright sneakers feature a white canvas upper with an all over print of Gachapin and Mukku on the go.

All the Japanese girls will love your otaku geek fashion. Cost of the sneakers is around 7,000 - 10,000 Yen

Via  High Snobiety

Last summer Japanese fashion merchandiser Uniqlo launched their popular line of summer camisoles and tank tops with built in cups for women called “Bra Tops ブラトップ” with a successful TV commercial campaign featuring Kazue Fukiishi 吹石一恵. Uniqlo’s Bra tops are priced from 1,500 yen and have adjustable shoulder straps and the clever cups of molded mesh material are designed to soak up perspiration.

Uniqlo sold some three million “Bra tops” last season and starts a global promotion this summer season featuring new image girl, actress and model Chiaki Kuriyama 栗山千明.  Chiaki is no stranger to Uniqlo having appeared in a Uniqlo commercial 12 years ago in 1997!

Chiaki Uniqlo Bra Top TV commercia

Chiaki Kuriyama Uniqlo Bra Top TV commercial

Chiaki Kuriyama Press Event

Chiaki Kuriyama 1997 Uniqlo TV commercial

Erika Mine 峰えりか is one hot CanCam model from Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture.  This 25 year old beauty is with the Infinity agency and besides being an exclusive model for fashion magazine CanCam she also was the 2005 Miss Japan International runner-up.

Erika has starred in 4 TV dramas since 2004 including  K-tai investigators 7  ケータイ捜査官7 (TV Tokyo 2008) Hitmaker Aku Yu Monogatari ヒットメーカー　阿久悠物語 (NTV, 2008), Meitantei Conan 2 名探偵コナン  as Kawada Kagami (NTV, 2007)  and Kimi ga Omoide ni Naru Mae ni  君が想い出になる前に  (Fuji TV, 2004).

She’s also appeared in TV commercials for Coca Cola, Jockey Underwear 株式会社JC Limited JOCKEY イメージキャラクター,   Meiho Enterprise 明豊エンタープライズ  Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank  大垣共立銀行 and most recently Morinaga Bake 森永製菓 with fellow CanCam Models Maryjun Takahashi,  Shizuka Kondo and Aiku Maikawa.

Read more about Erika at her blog here.

Erika Mine Videos

Meiho Enterprise CM

Morinaga Bake CM

Ema Rikumori 陸守絵麻 is a pretty 23 year old fashion model from Fukuoka who has been a cover model for Cawaii! Sweet, PS, Ray, With and Style. She’s also been a regular model for the highly popular Tokyo Girls Collection (TGC) fashion shows.  On the screen, Ema appeared in the 2005 movie Flowers, a TV commercial for Big Echo and regularly appears on Fuji TV Mezamashi’s MOTTO いまドキ!

It’s hard to imagine the transformation of celebrities and seeing pretty fashion models as young schoolgirls before their transformation is always interesting.  In the following clip from a Japanese TV talk show in 1997, a young 17 year old Moe Oshikiri (the famous CanCam magazine model) in her school girl uniform participates in a question and answer session (Moe was a teen model for gyaru magazine Egg)

Moe at 17 on 97 コギャルの大ザンゲ

Moe at 29