Japanese figure skater Mao Asada could not reach her rival, Yu-Na Kim of South Korea at the free program of women's figure skating in Vancouver Olympics. Kim won the gold medal, while Asada took silver, and Canada's Joannie Rochette received bronze medal.
Room information is available on the website in 3 languages besides Japanese.
Kyoritsu Maintenance is to open a student dormitory called NAGAYA on Apr. 1 2010. Monthly rent is set between 34,000 yen and 49,000. Five dorms have been built in Tokyo and 3 other cities.
Eighteen popular dancers show up at a photo book.
Media Factory, a company publishing comics and entertainment-related books, is to release a photo book of 18 lady dancers, who are popular at a movie site named Niko Niko Video, on Feb. 19 2010. Its title is, "I tried I had my picture taken."
Rooms are cool and stylish.
Kotobukiya, a toy maker as well as a book publisher in Tokyo has released a photo book, OTACOOL WORLDWIDE OTAKU ROOMS since the late October 2009.
Geiko/maiko from Kyoto is to perform at a traditional Japanese-style facility in Tokyo.
Meguro Gajoen, a Tokyo-based multipurpose facility of hotel, wedding banquet hall, and restaurant in a traditional Japanese style, is to conduct a dinner event with geisha performances on Feb. 5.
Actroid to be designed as it looks like you.
Department store chain Sogo & Seibu, corporatized by Seven & i Holdings, will sell a human-alike robot, Actroid on January 2 2010. It is priced at 20.1 million yen.
Japan's top advertising agency DENTSU announced today to launch a new company named AD AREA on January 5 2010, aiming to develop a new Internet advertising market in Japan. This is a joint venture with J-CAST, an online news service based in Tokyo.
Black version is sold only by Tower Records in Japan.
Tower Records Japan is to release a limited edition of Michael Jackson's film THIS IS IT on DVD, coming to the market on January 27 2010.
Combination of moe girl with military elements attracts readers' attention.
Ikaros Publications of Tokyo specializes in military books and magazines, as well as aviation, railroad and nautical publications. Recently, the company has been trying to introduce cute anime characters into its military books.
Actor Manabu Oshio, 31, was arrested again by Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) on December 7, 2009 as he allegedly gave illegal synthetic drug MDMA to a woman who died at a room of Roppongi Hills in August. MPD also arrested Oshio's acquaintance who was suspected to provide him MDMA, and his former manager on suspicion of destruction of evidence as he allegedly threw away a cell phone which the woman possessed.
Mika Noguchi, CEO of lingerie mail-order firm Peach John, updated her blog on December 1 2009, the first time in 4 months. She is an owner of the room in Roppongi Hills where Manabu Oshio, an actor who found guilty of using illegal synthetic drug MDMA, stayed with the lady who found dead.
Traditional-style Japanese painter Ikuo Hirayama died of a stroke at a hospital in Tokyo on December 2, 2009. He was at 79 years old. He was widely known for his works themed in the Silk Road.
A man arrested by Chiba Prefectural Police on suspicion of robbery reportedly told the police that he withdrew cash from the bank account of Yukari Ogino, a 21-year-old Chiba University student who was found dead at her burned-down room in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture. Major newspapers reported it on November 30, 2009.
More than 2,000 reservations are necessary for Blu-ray release.（c）2008 true tears 製作委員会
Toymaker Bandai Visual will release a Blu-ray Box of the anime "True Tears" for reservation only. "True Tears" was chosen as the most-wanted anime to come out on Blu-ray disc in a poll among users. The vote was held in summer 2009.
Toyota Motor Corp. announced on November 4 2009 that it plans to withdraw from Formula One racing at the end of the 2009 season Toyota once stated clearly it would continue to stay in F1 until 2012 while its rival Honda gave it up. Suzuki and Subaru also quit the World Rally Championship as a consequence of the global financial crisis that began in the Fall of 2008.