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Saiko No Jinsei
is a Japanese television drama series. It premiered on TBS on January 12, 2012. The drama revolves around the members of the Ihara family who operate a funeral parlor in Tokyo. Show Synopsis The funeral parlor has been run by Ihara Masato’s (Tomohisa Yamashita) family for generations. Masato grows to hate the family business due to the teasing he suffers from for being "the undertaker's kid", and he leaves home early in life. The sudden death of his estranged father and the disappearance of his older brother Kento (Takashi Sorimachi is a Japanese actor and singer. He is mostly famous for having portrayed Eikichi Onizuka in the 1998 live-action drama adaptation of the popular manga series ''Great Teacher Onizuka'', and the assassin O in Hong Kong action film '' Fulltime Kil ...) leave the Ihara-ya in Masato's reluctant hands. The Ihara-ya has close ties with the police and mostly handles the bodies of people who have died under mysterious or unexplained circumstances. On ...
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Tomohisa Yamashita
, also widely known as , or Tomo, is a Japanese singer, actor, and TV host. Yamashita joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates as a trainee in 1996 (age 11) and made his small acting debut for NHK's ''Shonentachi'' (1998) and has been active on Japanese TV since then. Yamashita made his official CD debut as part of idol group NEWS in 2004 and later debuted as a soloist in 2006. He got his successful acting career after an interesting portrayal as Kusano Akira for the hit drama ''Nobuta Wo Produce'' (2005). His biggest break as an actor came in 2006 when he landed his first lead role for popular drama ''Kurosagi''. On October 7, 2011, Johnny & Associates announced that Yamashita and Ryo Nishikido were no longer members of NEWS and Yamashita would be concentrating on his solo projects as actor and solo singer/idol. His solo music label was under Warner Music Japan until 2016. In mid-2018, Yamashita's music label moved to Sony Music Japan; however, Sony only managed Yam ...
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Izakaya
An () is a type of informal Japanese bar that serves alcoholic drinks and snacks. are casual places for after-work drinking, similar to a pub, a Spanish tapas bar, or an American saloon or tavern. Etymology The word entered the English language by 1987. It is a compound word consisting of ("to stay") and ("sake shop"), indicating that originated from sake shops that allowed customers to sit on the premises to drink. are sometimes called ('red lantern') in daily conversation, as such paper lanterns are traditionally found in front of them. History Anecdotes and songs that appear in the show that -style establishments existed in Japan at the early 700s. There is a record dating to 733 when rice was collected as a brewing fee tax under the jurisdiction of the government office called . In the , written in 797, there is a record of King Ashihara who got drunk and was murdered in a tavern in 761. The full-scale development of began around the Edo period (1603-1867) ...
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2012 Japanese Television Series Debuts
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by  2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following  0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the s ...
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Hidenori Iyoda
Hidenori (written: 秀典, 秀憲, 秀則, 秀徳, 英則, 英徳 or 英智) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese sound effects editor *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese ice hockey player *, Japanese biathlete *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese video game composer *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese cyclist *, Japanese video game composer *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese actor and singer *, Japanese composer and musician {{given name Japanese masculine given names ...
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Yasuharu Ishii
Yasuharu is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Yasuharu can be written using different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *康治, "healthy, to manage" *康春, "healthy, spring" *康晴, "healthy, clear (weather)" *康温, "healthy, to warm up" *靖治, "peaceful, to manage" *靖春, "peaceful, spring" *靖晴, "peaceful, clear (weather)" *靖温, "peaceful, to warm up" *安治, "tranquil, to manage" *安春, "tranquil, spring" *安晴, "tranquil, clear (weather)" *保治, "preserve, to manage" *保春, "preserve, spring" *保温, "preserve, to warm up" *泰治, "peaceful, to manage" *泰春, "peaceful, spring" *泰晴, "peaceful, clear (weather)" *易治, "divination, to manage" *易春, "divination, spring" *恭治, "respectful, to manage" The name can also be written in hiragana やすはる or katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin sc ...
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Chiho Watanabe
is a Japanese screenwriter. Watanabe is a member of the Scenario Writers Association. Her husband is freelance announcer Shinichi Hatori. Biography She was born in Tokyo. In 2000, she worked for a company as an office lady, originally thought that she wanted to write something, because she liked her books originally, as a result of the screenplay version of the television drama ''Fuzoroi no Ringo-tachi'' taken from a bookstore she am was willing for her path of screenwriting. In the era of underwriting worked on plotting screenplay and stayed in the eyes of producers of television stations, she made her debut as a screenwriter at the 2002 TV drama ''Tentai Kansoku'' (Kansai Telecasting Corporation). Since then, she has worked numerous comedies and romantic dramas around television dramas. In 2010 one of her works ''Nakanai to Kimeta Hi'' (Fuji Television) drew attention by hiding the back and front of the human with the theme of female workplace bullying without hiding, attrac ...
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Rei Okamoto
is Japanese model and actress who stars as Mia Amagishi in '' Threads of Destiny''. She also appears in the NHK Asadora , colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Take ... '' Jun and Ai'' (2012). Filmography Film Television References External links * * 1991 births 21st-century Japanese actresses People from Wakayama (city) Living people {{japan-actor-stub ...
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Sansei Shiomi
is a Japanese actor. Career Born in Kyoto Prefecture, Shiomi went to Doshisha University. He joined the theater troupe En in 1978 and soon also began appearing in film and television, mostly as a character actor. He won a Japan Movie Critics Award for best supporting actor for the film ''Ki no Umi'' (2004). Selected filmography Film * '' The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark'' (1993) * ''Love Letter'' (1995) * '' Swallowtail'' (1996) * ''Eureka'' (2000) * ''Calmi Cuori Appassionati'' (2001) * '' Go'' (2001) * ''When the Last Sword Is Drawn'' (2003), Kondō Isami * ''Blood and Bones'' (2004) * ''Ki no Umi'' (2004) * '' Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad'' (2007) * ''The Battery'' (2007) * '' Like a Dragon'' (2007) * '' Sukiyaki Western Django'' (2007) * ''Crows Zero'' (2007) * ''Tokyo Rendezvous'' (2008) * '' Children of the Dark'' (2008) * '' Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky'' (2009) * ''Villain'' (2010) * ''A Song I Remember'' (2011) * '' Hoshi Mamoru Inu' ...
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Japanese Funeral
The majority of funerals (, ''sōgi'' or , ''sōshiki'') in Japan include a wake, the cremation of the deceased, a burial in a family grave, and a periodic memorial service. According to 2007 statistics, 99.81% of deceased Japanese are cremated. Other practices in Japan include Shinto funerals and the Ryukyuan people’s indigenous sepultural culture. Modern funerals After death Although Japan has become a more secular society (see Religion in Japan), , 90% of funerals are conducted as Buddhist ceremonies. Immediately after a death (or, in earlier days, just before the expected death), relatives moisten the dying or deceased person's lips with water, a practice known as . Most Japanese homes maintain Buddhist altars, or , for use in Buddhist ceremonies; and many also have Shinto shrines, or . When a death occurs, the shrine is closed and covered with white paper to keep out the impure spirits of the dead, a custom called . A small table decorated with flowers, incense, and a ...
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Nana Eikura
is a Japanese actress, model, and occasional radio show host affiliated with Ken-On Group. Biography She was born in Izumi, Kagoshima, and raised in Sagamihara, Kanagawa.
While a junior high student, she was scouted in front of the 109 (department store), 109 department store in . During her middle-teenage years, Nana modeled in several fashion magazines, mainly in '' Seventeen''. During the 2000s, Eikura was featured in ''Seventeen'' along with

Japanese Television Drama
, also called , are television programs that are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, jidaigeki, thriller, and many others. Single episode, or "tanpatsu" dramas that are usually two hours in length are also broadcast. For special occasions, there may be a one or two-episode drama with a specific theme, such as one produced in 2015 for the 70-year anniversary of the end of World War II. Japanese drama series are broadcast in three-month seasons: winter (January–March), spring (April–June), summer (July–September), and autumn or fall (October–December). Some series may start in another month though it may still be counted as a series of a specific season. The majority of dramas are aired weekdays in the evenings around 9pm through 11pm. Daytime dramas are typically broadcast daily, and episodes of the same drama can be aired daily for s ...
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