Ayumi Hamasaki Officially Ties the Knot

Just a day after she announced getting married to boyfriend of 5 months on Twitter, Ayumi Hamasaki cannot wait any longer and finished marriage registration in Las Vegas, USA.

The Japanese pop singer and her boyfriend Manuel Schwarz arrived Las Vegas on January 1 (USA time) and held a very simple wedding in a small church at 7PM. The fashionista did not wear a wedding gown, only in a t-shirt and jeans.

After she became a 'Mrs,' Hamasaki wrote on her fans club website: "January 1, 2011, I already finished my wedding in a small American church. He [Schwarz] is the Last Angel. I'll continue to work hard. Hope everyone can continue to support me."

Source: Twitter / By: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Ayumi Hamasaki to Marry Austrian Manuel Schwarz

What a stunning news to start the first day of 2011.

After dating less than half of a year, Ayumi Hamasaki, 32, decides to marry Austrian Manuel Schawarz, 30. She announced the news on Twitter: "Happy New Year. Starting this year, my husband will become my real husband."

The two met each other last August when the Japanese pop star went to Los Angeles for her new album "Love Songs." The Austrian actor played Hamasaki's groom in her MV for "Virgin Road," which is why she refers him as 'husband' in her announcement tweet. The couple rely on phone calls and twitter to maintain their relationship.

Hamasaki denies getting married for unexpected pregnancy and she will continue her music career after marriage.

Source: Japanese Media / By: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Baby No.2 For Actress Ryoko Hirosue

Ryoko Hirosue's agency announced on Monday that the actress is pregnant. According to the company's statement, the 30 year old had not been feeling well, so she visited a hospital at the start of this month, where it was confirmed that she is in her 16th week of pregnancy.

Hirosue unexpectedly got married to candle artist Candle JUNE in early October, after dating for only seven months. It was widely suspected at the time that she might be pregnant, though nothing was officially announced until now. Hirosue already has a son from her previous marriage to designer Takahiro Okazawa, which ended in 2008.

Hirosue reportedly plans to continue working after the new child is born.

Source: Sankei Sports / From: Tokyograph

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Gravure Idol Leah Dizon Ends Her 2-year Marriage

The American-born beauty once charmed countless otaku guys with her innocent face and sexy body and had a very smooth showbiz career in Japan. However, her popularity declined after she announced her marriage with a Japanese stylist Bun and an unexpected pregnancy on her website.

The 24-year-old now decided to end her 2-year marriage. Japanese media reported she already moved out from her husband's apartment and started a new life with their 1-year-old daughter Mila.

In fact, no one had hopes in Leah's marriage. The divorce is certainly not a surprise to everyone.

It was rumored Leah plans to join the Adult Video industry to save her career. Even though her publicist has denied the rumor, but many netizens believe the model/singer would definitely strip her clothes for money.

The single mom has been trying to get back to the business. She performed at a stage drama "Hiroshima ni Banbaku no Otosu Hi" this summer and modeled at a fashion show last month.


Source: Japanese media / By: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Ayumi Hamasaki Has Plastic Surgery Again?

Japanese pop star Ayumi Hamasaki released new single "L" recently. In order to keep her popularity high, this time she generously revealed her body to fans, only covering her chest with her chest as seen on a magazine cover. However, she can't avoid negative rumors as usual. It's said she had plastic surgery again and this time on her lips, making her thin lips appear full. Looking back at pictures in her earlier years, her face was not sharp and eye-catching compared to now, and it's the reason for her constant plastic surgery rumors over these years.

Besides plastic surgery rumors, she is also accused of taking people's ideas. Her album cover for "L" is similar to the cover of Taiwanese star Barbie Hsu (Da S)'s book, which both shares the same concept of holding a mask. Even her sexy photo shoot for ViVi magazine is said of copying Lady GaGa's magazine cover.

Source: TOM / By: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Vivian Hsu Is the Only Chinese Star to Appear On Bea's Up Magazine

Vivian Hsu returned to Japanese showbiz earlier and has a good comeback already. She is even on the cover on Japanese beauty magazine "Bea's Up" lately. Artistes who are able to appear on the cover of this magazine are usually popular Japanese stars like Ayumi Hamasaki and Ueto Aya, etc. Vivian becomes the cover girl of this magazine again after eight years. Staff who once worked with her before were amazed that she didn't change too much compared to 8 years ago.

Vivian accepted interview and talked about her experiences as an actor. She said in order to get close with her character, every time she receives her scripts, she would try to erase her real personality. Like recently she is filming new film "Juliet" produced by Ang Lee. She plays a girl with poliomyelitis. Even when she doesn't have to film her part, she would keep her status from the film.

Source: UDN / Translated by: KAY @ kays-entertainment.blogspot.com

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SMAP Cancels Event At Shanghai World Expo

Source: Mingpao / Translated by: KAY

J-Pop group SMAP originally planned to hold their first oversea concert at Shanghai Expo Cultural Center on June 13. But yesterday afternoon, Shanghai World Expo Coordination Bureau announced on its official website that the event has been canceled due to safety concern. It's said in order to avoid the the same thing happening at the "Korean Classical and Pop Concert," where more than 2,000 visitors stormed the South Korean pavilion and more than 100 people were injured, so the organization decided to cancel this event. SMAP expressed through their management company that they feel sorry and it's a pity.

Yesterday morning, Japanese media were already reporting the expo is considering canceling SMAP's concert. They said at the opening ceremony on May 1, it was a mess when visitors were fighting for their admission tickets to the Chinese pavilion. Plus on May 30, it was a stampede when thousands of fans came to watch Super Junior, BoA and Ahn Chil Hyun etc's free performance in "Korean Classical and Pop Concert." After the incident, many Japanese netizens already predicted that SMAP might cancel their upcoming performance due to safety issue. Considering SMAP's popularity and it's also a free show, the organization is worried the same chaos might happen again.

Once the reports were out, fans who planned to go to Shanghai to enjoy SMAP's performance were shocked and confused. It was until yesterday that the bureau announced on the official website that"with the rapid increase of visitors, it has decided to cancel the concert due to safety concern. Officials hope fans will understand the decision."

SMAP's performance in Shanghai Expo is supposed to be their first oversea concert since their formation in 1988. Besides the fans, SMAP's 5 members including Kimura Takuya are very excited about it. After the cancelation of the show was announced yesterday, SMAP disclosed their through management company: "Now, once we think about fans' feelings of waiting to meet us, we feel it's a pity, but we believe there must be another chance that we can meet fans in China who have been waiting for us."

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'月の恋人〜Moon Lovers〜' Ratings Finally Stopped Dropping

Japanese drama king Kimura Takuya's "月の恋人〜Moon Lovers〜" (Tsuki no Oibito) aired its fourth episode last Sunday. Ratings of this drama has been dropping from 22.4% (first episode) to 19.2% (second episode), and to 15.6% (third episode), dropping more than 3%.

Finally its fourth episode stopped the continuous drop; its average ratings is 18.18% and the drama is still number one on the chart. But "Rinjo 2" on the second place is running close to "Moon Lovers," with an average ratings of 17.76% on episode 7. If "Moon Lovers" continues to drop next week, its number one spot would most likely be replaced by "Rinjo 2.

Source: Liberty Times / Translated by: KAY @ kays-entertainment.blogspot.com

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Ratings of Kimura Takuya's 'Moon Lovers' Drops

 

Japanese drama king Kimura Takuya's new drama "Moon Lovers" (月の恋人) aired its second episode yesterday in Fuji TV. Although the new episode featured hot kissing scenes between Kimura and Taiwanese top model Chiling Lin, but ratings didn't raise but dropped instead. It dropped from 22.4% (first episode) to 19.2%.

After five years, Kimura finally gave his on-screen kiss again. But viewers didn't seem to buy it and some netizens dislikes Kimura has aged and isn't suitable of playing a prince anymore. In general, viewers praised foreigner Chiling has a good performance and pretty face: "Still this pretty at 35!" Seems like team of this drama really need to do more promotion work to bring ratings up.

Source: Liberty Times / Translated by: KAY @ kays-entertainment.blogspot.com

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TVXQ/DBSK to Stop Their Group Activies

Is it time to go solo?

With their group activites in Korea already halted due to a lawsuit  filed by Jaejoong, Yoochun and Junsu  against SM Entertainment, it was announced today that TVXQ will be stopping their group activities in Japan.

Despite the lawsuit filed by the JaeChunSu trio in mid-2009, TVXQ still continued their group activities in Japan.

But it looks like their 30th single, Toki o Tomete which was released late last month could be their final piece together.

Visitors to their official Japanese website on April 3rd were greeted with a popup message from Avex Japan which stated that ‘Tohoshinki will stop/pause their activities as a group and to please support their solo activities‘.

With no definite timeframe or concrete details from Avex Japan, fans are undoubtedly crushed by this devasting announcement.

Keep the faith though, it could be just temporary,

Or, forever.

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ICONIQ's Debut Album Didn't Do So Well

25-year-old ICONIQ was a member from Korean group Sugar. She restarted her path as a star in Japan with new name ICONIQ. Her record company Avex invested a lot in her and tried to make her as the star of the year. She was the spokesperson for 7 brands and was the cover girl for about 12 magazines. It does seem Avex spent a lot on this rising star.

However, ICONIQ's debut album "Change Myself" which released on March 10 only sold 40K copies and occupied number 3 spot on the Oricon chart. Yesterday it dropped to even number 8.

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ORANGE RANGE Lead Vocal HIROKI Married Girlfriend Last Month

Source: ON.CC

Japanese band ORANGE RANGE member, 26-year-old HIROKI announced that he got married last month on his website, but didn't announce her age or how long they dated each other. He said he hopes to have a different insight in music after marriage.

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Vivian Hsu Returns to Japanese Showbiz

Source: The Sun / Translated by: KAY

It has been 7 years since Vivian Hsu was active in Japan's showbiz. She held a press conference in Tokyo lately and announced her comeback. Her first step is releasing a new Japanese single called "Beautiful Day." Vivian appeared with Chanel's new spring dress to the conference, where almost hundreds of media reporters were present. Japanese media asked Vivian whether she still remember Japanese, she performed a Japanese tongue twister right away. She expressed she is eager to reunite with good friends Black Biscuits and Pocket Biscuits. She said she is most grateful that her fans still remember her these 20 years. A video clip was played in the conference, showing Jackie Chan congratulating her. He hopes Japanese audience and media will support Vivian like they support him.

Vivian's "Beautiful Day" cover

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