Dreams Come True started their 20 year anniversary tour thumbnail

Dreams Come True started their 20 year anniversary tour

Dreams Come True started their 20 year anniversary tour on March 21, 2009 from Osaka Jo Hall. They made a record of singing 40 song in this concert and got a great applause from more than 10 thousands people.
Dreams Come True vocalist, Yoshida Miwa (43) was crying from the opening. She said that they are [...]

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Yamaha closed piano factory in UK and Taiwan thumbnail

Yamaha closed piano factory in UK and Taiwan

March 20, 2009

March 19, 2009, Yamaha announced a business restructuring by closing piano factory plant in UK and Taiwan. They have been produced large number of piano for the world. As an effect of global crisis, piano production in UK and Taiwan dropped significantly and they choose to close it’s plant in UK and Taiwan. They will [...]

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Arashi’s new single, “Kumori nochi, Kaisei” became this year’s number one hits CD two days after released thumbnail

Arashi’s new single, “Kumori nochi, Kaisei” became this year’s number one hits CD two days after released

March 11, 2009

March 9, 2009, Arashi’s new single, “Kumori nochi, Kaisei” got to the top of Oricon chart on it’s debut. Initial lauch week’s sales recorded 502 thousands copies sold. As a single, this record is the first time since KAT-TUN’s debut song “Real Face” which is recorded 754 thousands copies sold 3 years before. For Arashi, [...]

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Nikkei closed at 7086.03 on March 9, 2009, marked a new post-bubble low since October 1982 thumbnail

Nikkei closed at 7086.03 on March 9, 2009, marked a new post-bubble low since October 1982

March 10, 2009

March 9, 2009, Tokyo Stock Exchange was still in strong uncertainty over the economy, Nikkei average closed at 7086.03 yen, 87.07 yen lower than last week’s closing point. This closing point was lower than post-bubble’s low at 7162.90 yen marked on October 27, 2008, and broke 26 years 5 months lowest point since October 1982.
It [...]

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As an impact of exports decreased, Japan had a 172.8 billion yen deficit on January 2009, for the first time and biggest since January 1996 thumbnail

As an impact of exports decreased, Japan had a 172.8 billion yen deficit on January 2009, for the first time and biggest since January 1996

March 9, 2009

March 9, 2009, Ministry of Finance announced that Japan had a 172.8 billion yen deficit on transactions of goods and services abroad on January 2009. The current deficit is the first time and biggest since 25.6 billion yen deficit occured on January 1996.
Large decline in exports in the rapidly deteriorating global economy, made trade balance [...]

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Japan won against South Korea 14-2 in 2009 World Baseball Classic thumbnail

Japan won against South Korea 14-2 in 2009 World Baseball Classic

March 8, 2009

The second World Baseball Classic (WBC) played second match in Group A on March 7, 2009. Japanese batting blast leads by Ichiro Suzuki (Seattle Mariners). Japan won over South Korea 14-2 with just seven-inning played, and decided to enter second round which will be held in US on March 16, 2009. Japanese team were able [...]

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Arashi’s latest single climbed to fourth on 2009 Oricon yearly chart only by it’s first day of release thumbnail

Arashi’s latest single climbed to fourth on 2009 Oricon yearly chart only by it’s first day of release

March 5, 2009

Popular group, Arashi’s latest single “Believe / Kumori nochi, Kaisei” tops daily single Oricon chart on March 3, 2009. With 2.15 million copies sold in first day of release, following Akimoto Yoriko’s single “Ai no mama de…” (3.36 million copies sold on January 2008 release), KAT-TUN’s single “ONE DROP” (3.15 million copies sold on February [...]

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Koyuki selected as the most nice “White Skin” celebrity thumbnail

Koyuki selected as the most nice “White Skin” celebrity

March 3, 2009

World’s first UV care brand, Coppertone, announced their “nice white skin celebrity” and “nice healthy skin celebrity” survey result on March 2, 2009.
For “nice white skin celebrity”, first place goes to Koyuki, Ayase Haruka in second place and Matsuyuki Yasuko in third place. They are selected because of these sorts of criteria, such as “not [...]

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