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Chūgakusei Nikki
is a Japanese manga series by Junko Kawakami. ''Chūgakusei Nikki'' is serialized in the monthly manga magazine '' Feel Young'' since June 2013. A live-action drama began airing in October for the Fall 2018 season. Plot Akira Kuroiwa, a third year middle school student, falls in love with his new homeroom teacher, Hijiri Suenaga. Akira struggles with these feelings knowing their age gap and the fact that Hijiri already has a longtime boyfriend who she is engaged to. Akira is disheartened at first, but things change by the time he is 18, when Hijiri has broken up with her fiancé. Characters Main characters ; :Portrayed by Kasumi Arimura (drama) :Hijiri is a 25-year-old teacher at a middle school. Her students often refer to her by her first name instead of addressing her as a teacher. ; :Portrayed by Kenshi Okada (drama) :Akira is the narrator of the story. As a 14-year-old student in Hijiri's 9th grade class, he slowly discovers that he is in love with her. By volume 3, ...
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Tankōbon
A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that was previously published in a serialized format. Manga typically contain a handful of chapters, and may collect multiple volumes as a series continues publication. Major publishing Imprint (trade name), imprints for of manga include Jump Comics (for serials in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' and other Jump (magazine line), ''Jump'' magazines), Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Shōnen Magazine Comics, Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday Comics, and Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shōnen Champion, Shōnen Champion Comics. Manga Increasingly after 1959, manga came to be published in thick, phone book, phone-book-sized weekly or monthly anthology list of manga magazines, manga magazines (such as ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' or ''Weekly Shōnen Jump ...
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Yui Natsukawa
is a Japanese actress. She co-starred with Hiroshi Abe in the 2006 Japanese drama '' Kekkon Dekinai Otoko'' and in Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2008 film '' Still Walking''. Filmography Film * ''Sora ga Konnani Aoi Wake ga Nai'' (1993) - Kaoru Aoki * ''Yoru ga Mata Kuru'' (1994) - Nami Tsuchiya * '' Kura'' (1995) - Seki Yamanaka * ''Gonin 2'' (1996) - Saki * ''The Trap'' (1996) - Yuriko * ''Watashitachi ga Suki datta Koto'' (1997) - Aiko Shibata * ''Shikoku'' (1999) - Hinako Myoujin * ''Acacia no Michi'' (2001) - Kijima, Miwako * ''Distance'' (2001) - Kiyoka * '' Onmyōji'' (2001) - Fujiwara no Sukehime * ''Sotsugyō'' (2002) - Izumi * '' When the Last Sword Is Drawn'' (2002) - Shizu / Mitsu * '' Spy Sorge'' (2003) - Hideko Ozaki * '' Zatōichi'' (2003) - O-Shino, Hattori's Wife * ''Yudan Tateiki'' (2004) - Miss Makiko * '' Hana'' (2006) - Oryo * '' Tales from Earthsea'' (2006) - The Queen (voice) * '' A Gentle Breeze in the Village'' (2007) - Itoko Migita * '' Still Walking'' (2008) - Y ...
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Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ... 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 () 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 ...
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Mainichi Shimbun
The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by In addition to the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called , and publishes a bilingual news magazine, ''Mainichi Weekly''. It also publishes paperbacks, books and other magazines, including a weekly news magazine, ''Sunday Mainichi''. It is one of the four national newspapers in Japan; the other three are ''The Asahi Shimbun'', the ''Yomiuri Shimbun'' and the '' Nihon Keizai Shimbun''. The '' Sankei Shimbun'' and the ''Chunichi Shimbun'' are not currently in the position of a national newspaper despite a large circulation for both. History The history of the ''Mainichi Shimbun'' began with the founding of two papers during the Meiji period. The '' Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun'' was founded first, in 1872. The ''Mainichi'' claims that it is the oldest existing Japanese daily newspaper with its 136-year history. The Osaka ...
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Nikkan Sports
is the first-launched Japanese daily sports newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ... founded in 1946. It has a circulation of 1,661,000, and is an affiliate newspaper of the '' Asahi Shimbun''. Companies and regions ;Nikkan Sports News (Tokyo) :Tokyo HQ: 5-10, Tsukiji Sanchome, Chuo, Tokyo, Japan ;Hokkaido Nikkan Sports News (Hokkaido) :Hokkaido HQ: KN Building, 1-30, Kita-Sanjo-Higashi Sanchome, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Japan ;Nikkan Sports News West Japan (Osaka, Nagoya, Kyushu) :Osaka HQ: Hanshin Diamond Building, 14-24, Fukushima Sanchome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan :Nagoya HQ: Asahi Kaikan, 3-3, Sakae Itchome, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Japan :Seibu HQ: Fukuoka Asahi Building, 1-1, Hakata Ekimae Nichome, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, Japan See also * Nikkan Sports Film Award ...
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Tokyo Sports
is a Japanese daily sports newspaper founded in 1960. See also * Tokyo Sports Film Award * Tokyo Sports Puroresu Awards References External links

* http://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp Official website 1960 establishments in Japan Daily newspapers published in Japan Newspapers established in 1960 Sports newspapers published in Japan Newspapers published in Tokyo Japanese-language newspapers {{japan-newspaper-stub ...
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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 The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are ''The Asahi Shimbun'', the ''Chunichi Shimbun'', the ''Ma ...''. 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 References External links * Newspapers established in 1872 1872 establishments in Japan Daily newspapers published in Japan Sports newspapers published in Japan {{japan-sport-stub ...
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Mari Natsuki
(née , more commonly known by her stage name , is a Japanese singer, dancer, actress and philanthropist, who describes herself as a "person who plays." Born in Tokyo, she started work as a singer from a young age. In 2007, Natsuki announced her engagement to percussionist Nobu Saitō (斉藤ノヴ), with their marriage taking place in Spring 2008. Natsuki has participated in musical theatre, including Madame Thenardier in ''Les Miserables'', Golde in ''Fiddler on the Roof'' and that of Yukio Ninagawa. She provided the voice of Yubaba in '' Spirited Away'', played the young witch's mother in the Japanese TV remake of '' Bewitched'' and has twice been nominated for a Japanese Academy Award. Natsuki played the character Big Mama in the Japanese version of '' Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots'' and has also acted in television dramas, such as the 2005 series '' Nobuta o Produce'', playing the Vice Principal, Katharine. In 2024, Natsuki reprised her famous roles of Yubab ...
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Koshi Mizukami
is a Japanese actor. Until August 2022 he worked under the stage name . Early life Mizukami was born on 12 May 1999 in Higashi ward, Fukuoka Prefecture. He started playing baseball in the second grade of elementary school and mainly served as a catcher. He graduated from Soseikan High School. In addition, of the professional baseball team Hanshin Tigers was a junior in the baseball club, Mizukami was a catcher and Kawahara was a pitcher. Career In the winter of his first year of junior high school, he was first scouted by the entertainment agency Spice Power (the male division of talent agency ). After that, he was pursued by the agency for five years, but he kept turning down the offer as he was immersed in baseball and was aiming to play in Koshien. In 2017, after departing from the baseball club when he was in his third year of high school, he was scouted by a teacher who was an adviser to the drama club, and played as a kamikaze member in a work called "''Hair combing Au ...
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Natalie (website)
is a Japanese entertainment news website that debuted on February 1, 2007. It is operated by Natasha, Inc. The website is named after the song of the same name by Julio Iglesias. ''Natalie'' has been providing news for such leading Japanese portals and social networks as Mobage Town, GREE, Livedoor, Excite, Mixi, and Yahoo! Japan. It has also been successful on Twitter, with 1,510,000 followers as of February 2017, being the third-most-followed Japanese media company, after '' The Mainichi Shimbun'' and '' The Asahi Shimbun''. History Natasha, Inc., a content provider, was founded in December 2005, becoming a limited company in February 2006 and being demutualized in January 2007. On February 1, 2007, Natasha, Inc. opened its own news website ''Natalie'', named after the song "Nathalie" by Julio Iglesias. It was dedicated exclusively to music news and created with the idea of updating on a daily basis, something that newspapers could not do. The website also offered o ...
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