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Saigo No Yakusoku
is a Japanese drama special starring the members of Japanese boy band Arashi in their first drama together in nearly ten years. Plot Janitors Satoru Mashiko ( Satoshi Ohno) and Haruo Iio ( Kazuki Kosakai) are driving towards Energy Bio Corporation for work when motorcycle courier Nozomu Gotō (Jun Matsumoto) passes by them. Gotō goes to deliver a package to Yuriko Niimi ( Meisa Kuroki), the daughter of the president of Energy Bio Corporation. Meanwhile, Fuyuko Todoroki ( Nene Otsuka) orders a cappuccino from coffee shop employee Akira Tanada ( Masaki Aiba). They talk before she has to leave to meet with insurance salesman Yukio Tomizawa ( Sho Sakurai) downstairs. As Mashiko and Iio start cleaning, Tanada apologizes for giving security center employee Shūji Yamagiwa ( Kazunari Ninomiya) and new security manager Shinichirō Okanaka ( Naohito Fujiki) the wrong order. At 3:00pm, a disguised man with a rifle informs everyone that he and his allies have hijacked the building and set ...
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Suspense
Suspense is a state of mental uncertainty, anxiety, being undecided, or being doubtful. In a dramatic work, suspense is the anticipation of the outcome of a plot or of the solution to an uncertainty, puzzle, or mystery, particularly as it affects a character for whom one has sympathy. However, suspense is not exclusive to fiction. In drama In literature, films, television, and plays, suspense is a major device for securing and maintaining interest. It may be of several major types: in one, the outcome is uncertain and the suspense resides in the question of ''who, what, or how''; in another, the outcome is inevitable from foregoing events, and the suspense resides in the audience's anxious or frightened anticipation in the question of ''when''. Readers feel suspense when they are deeply curious about ''what'' will happen next, or when they know what is likely to happen but don’t know ''how'' it will happen. Even in historical fiction, with characters whose life stori ...
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Naohito Fujiki
is a Japanese actor and singer. Filmography Drama * (1996), Guest at Table 3 * ハートにS (1996) * (1996) * * ''Shin-D Love Blood'' (1997) * (1997) * * * (1998) * (1998) * (1999) * (1999) * (1999) * (2000) * * ''LOVE REVOLUTION'' (2001) * (2001) * (2001) * (2002) * (2002) * (2003) * * (2004) * (2005) * (2005) * * '' 1 Litre of Tears'' (2005) * (2006) * ''Gal Circle'' (2006) * * '' 1 Litre of Tears SP'' (2007) * ''Operation Love'' (2007) * '' Hotaru no Hikari'' (2007) * '' Operation Love SP'' (2008) * (2008) * 2008 * (2009) * (2010) * '' PRICELE$S〜あるわけねぇだろ、んなもん!〜'' (2012) * '' Doctor-X'' Season 2 (2012), Kondo Shinobu * (2015) * ''Segodon'' (2018), Abe Masahiro * '' Good Doctor'' (2018), Seiji Takayama * ''Natsuzora is a Japanese television drama series and the 100th Memorial Asadora series, following ''Manpuku''. It premiered on April 1, 2019, and concluded on September 28, 2019. The story is loosely based on the ...
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Odaiba
today is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially built in this area for defensive purposes in the 1850s. Reclaimed land offshore Shinagawa was dramatically expanded during the late 20th century as a seaport district, and has developed since the 1990s as a major commercial, residential and leisure area. Odaiba, along with Minato Mirai 21 in Yokohama, is among a few manmade seashores in Tokyo Bay where the waterfront is accessible, and not blocked by industry and harbor areas. For artificial sand beaches in the bay, Sea Park in Kanazawa-ku is suitable for swimming, Odaiba has one, and there are two in Kasai Rinkai Park area looking over to the Tokyo Disneyland. formally refers to one district of the island development in Minato Ward. Governor Shintaro Ishihara used ''Odaiba'' to refer to the entire , which includes the Ariake and Aomi districts of Kōtō Ward and the Higashi-Yashio district of Shinagawa ...
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Sports Hochi
, previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. It is an affiliate newspaper of ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. Reports 19 September 1939: SS Scharnhorst The Hochi Shimbun newspaper was mentioned in an article in The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser on September 20, 1939 concerning the conversion of the SS Scharnhorst into the escort carrier Shin'yō by the Imperial Japanese Navy. See also *Hochi Film Award *Golden Spirit Award The Golden Spirit Award is given annually to the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) player who "best exemplifies the game of baseball, sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual's contribution to his team", as voted on by members of th ... References External links * Daily newspapers published in Japan Sports newspapers published in Japan {{sports-stub ...
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Asahi Shimbun
is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and 1.33 million for its evening edition as of July 2021, was second behind that of the ''Yomiuri Shimbun''. By print circulation, it is the third largest newspaper in the world behind the ''Yomiuri'', though its digital size trails that of many global newspapers including ''The New York Times''. Its publisher, is a media conglomerate with its registered headquarters in Osaka. It is a privately held family business with ownership and control remaining with the founding Murayama and Ueno families. According to the Reuters Institute Digital Report 2018, public trust in the ''Asahi Shimbun'' is the lowest among Japan's major dailies, though confidence is declining in all the major newspapers. The ''Asahi Shimbun'' is one of the five largest ...
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Omotesandō Station
is a Tokyo Metro subway station located at the intersection of Omotesandō (Avenue Omotesandō) and Aoyama-dori (Aoyama Street) in Aoyama, Minato ward, Tokyo, Japan. Part of the Chiyoda Line platforms extends into Shibuya ward. Lines Omote-sando Station is served by the following three lines. * Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line (C-04) * Tokyo Metro Ginza Line (G-02) * Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line (Z-02) Station layout There are three levels at this station: *B1: Ginza and Hanzomon Line platforms *B2: Ticket hall / ticket gates / main concourse *B3: Chiyoda Line platforms All platforms are wheelchair accessible. There is same-direction cross-platform interchange between the Ginza and Hanzomon lines, making this a convenient transfer point on the Aoyama-dōri section of these lines. Passengers who wish to change to the JR lines or the Keio Inokashira Line at Shibuya often change to the Ginza line here; those who want the Tokyu Toyoko Line, the Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line or the Tokyu Den- ...
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Mezamashi TV
is a Japanese news magazine show broadcast every weekday on Fuji TV from 4:55 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. ''Mezamashi'' is a form of the Japanese verb mezamasu (to wake up). Mezamashi TV has several spin-off shows such as (replacing Meza News which ended in March 2014), which is aired before Mezamashi TV for viewers in the Kanto region starting at 4:00 am (stations in some areas will air Meza News at 5:00 am) which ended in March 2018 and , the Saturday supplement of ''Mezamashi TV'' which airs at a later time from 6:00 to 8:30 am, and ''Mezamashi 8'' which is a replacement to Tokudane! from March 29, 2021. History In the first half of the 1990s, several news magazine shows of Fuji TV in the morning were discontinued after a short period because of low television ratings. The new show featured two presenters, Norikazu Otsuka and Akiko Yagi. Otsuka was a freelance presenter who had been a presenter at NHK. ''Mezamashi TV'' was first broadcast on April 1, 1994. In 1997, Natsu ...
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Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ...
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Yukiya Kitamura
is a Japanese actor represented by Tom company. His father is actor Kazuo Kitamura and his wife is actress Shiho Takano. Biography While in Tokyo Metropolitan Institute Fuji High School, Kitamura was interested in theater and wants to be an aspiring actor. He later studied acting at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and in 1998 he debuted in the stage play '' Spring Awakening'' and the film ''Dr. Akagi''. Kitamura perform at stage shows but he does not belong to a specific theater company and in recent years he appeared in a number of television dramas. On 2016 his first starring film role was ''Taiyō no Futa''. On June 4, 2013, Kitamura married actress Shiho Takano is a Japanese actress who is represented by the talent agency, Tom company. Takano's husband is actor Yukiya Kitamura is a Japanese actor represented by Tom company. His father is actor Kazuo Kitamura and his wife is actress Shiho Takano. Bi ... after dating for four years. He later announced in his bl ...
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Senpai And Kōhai
In Japan, ''senpai'' (, "senior") and ''kōhai'' (, "junior") represent an informal hierarchical interpersonal relationship found in organizations, associations, clubs, businesses, and schools. The concept has its roots in Confucian teaching, but it has developed a distinguished Japanese style, ultimately becoming part of Japanese culture. Concept The relationship is an interdependent one, as a ''senpai'' requires a ''kōhai'' and vice versa, and establishes a bond determined by the date of entry into an organization. ''Senpai'' refers to the member of higher experience, hierarchy, level, or age in the organization who offers assistance, friendship, and counsel to a new or inexperienced member, known as the ''kōhai'', who must demonstrate gratitude, respect, and occasionally personal loyalty. The ''kōhai'' defers to the ''senpai''s seniority and experience, and speaks to the ''senpai'' using honorific language. The ''senpai'' acts at the same time as a friend. This relation ...
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Masahiko Tsugawa
, born Masahiko Katō (加藤 雅彦 ''Katō Masahiko''; January 2, 1940 – August 4, 2018) was a Japanese actor and director. Career Tsugawa was born January 2, 1940, in Kyoto, Japan. After acting as a child, he made his major debut at the age of 16 in the Kō Nakahira film ''Crazed Fruit'' in 1956. Tsugawa's family was heavily involved in the film industry since before his birth. Tsugawa attended school until dropping out of Waseda University Graduate School to pursue acting alone. He gradually grew in popularity by playing villain roles such television jidaigeki drama series as Hissatsu series and appeared in films like '' Otoko wa tsurai yo: Watashi no tora-san'' and '' Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack''. He was eventually adopted as one of director Juzo Itami's favourite actors, and went on to appear in nearly every one of his movies since ''Tampopo''. In television Tsugawa portrayed Tokugawa Ieyasu five times. He played Ieyasu in the 2000 '' ...
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Nene Otsuka
is a Japanese actress. She starred in Masahiro Kobayashi's film '' Bashing'', which was screened in competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Career Otuska has appeared in films such as Hirokazu Koreeda's ''I Wish'' and Yoshihiro Nakamura's '' See you tomorrow, everyone''. She also appeared in Shinji Aoyama's 2002 television film '' Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name''. Filmography Film * ''Quiet Days of firemen'' (1994) * ''Hanako'' (1995) * '' Swallowtail'' (1996) * ''Ooi Naru Kan'' (1998) * ''Film Noir'' (2000) * ''The Guys from Paradise'' (2000) * ''Man Walking on Snow'' (2001) * ''Kikansha Sensei'' (2004) * '' Bashing'' (2005) * ''Female'' (2005) * '' Limit of Love: Umizaru'' (2006) * ''Hero'' (2007), Misuzu Nakamura * '' Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess'' (2009) * '' Piecing Me Back Together'' (2010) * ''I Wish'' (2011) * ''It All Began When I Met You'' (2013) * '' See You Tomorrow, Everyone'' (2013) * ''Flight on the Water'' (2020) * ''Daughters'' (2020) * ''Georam ...
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