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The Oscars will offer up their own version of March Madness next year. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has set Sunday, March 7, as the date for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, moving into March in order to avoid colliding with the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics. That shifts the Oscar [...]
Yua Aida is an award-winning Japanese model and former AV idol. Aida debuted in photo layouts in 2003, and made her AV debut in the January 2004 DVD release Pichi Pichi. A co-production of the KUKI and MAX-A labels, Pichi Pichi had Aida playing the role of a student writing a final paper for school [...]
All Formula One’s car manufacturers and current teams are prepared to commit to the sport until the end of 2012, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said on Thursday. “All the teams and car manufacturers are prepared to commit to enter in the new Concorde Agreement until the end of 2012,” he told the first news [...]
But what is a Geisha nowadays? There remains some confusion, even within Japan, about the nature of the geisha profession. Geisha are portrayed as prostitutes in much Western popular culture. However, geisha do not engage in paid sex with clients. Their purpose being to entertain their customer, be it by dancing, reciting verse, playing musical [...]
Japan’s men were the shock winners of the Nordic combined team title at the world championships here on Thursday. The Japanese claimed gold after finishing fifth in the ski jump and winning the cross-country skiing 4×5km relay by the smallest of margins. Germany finished second with the much-fancied Norwegians third. In a tight race to [...]
