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4 July 2007

Minor talento Sakamoto Issei (36) was stabbed on Sunday morning following a car park argument. While parking his car at a neighborhod supermarket in Inage, Chiba Prefecture, he almost hit another car. This led to an argument with a man described as 60 years old an unemployed (often a euphemism for a yakuza). The man punched Sakamoto and stabbed him in the chest and was arrested on the spot. (Reports failed to mention if the man was further incensed by Sakamoto's cheesy photos!) Real name Itoh Fumio, Sakamoto's brief claim to fame was in the early 1990s when he debuted with the stage name Shin Kase Taishu. The name was a sarcastic move by the Interface Project management agency after they lost a court case to use the name Kase Taishu when that popular talento quit the agency. His showbiz career never really took off and in 1997 he quit only to try out a s pro wrestler in 1999. After that bid failed, he worked as a used car salesman, long-distance truck driver and restaurant manager. He is currently trying his luck again as a talento, but also working a couple of nights a week at a host club in Tokyo's seedy Kabukicho district.

:shakehead: nasty

Hmm, where's MissyMon?

Why isn't she updating this thread? :sweat:

Good observation. I haven't seen her in a while. Gone with the wind?

chiba wrote:Entertainment news from Japan-zone.com-Your Guide to Japan and Japanese Culture:

4 July 2007

Minor talento Sakamoto Issei (36) was stabbed on Sunday morning following a car park argument. ...

Minor talento... More like not talento at all. Looks like he's the typical part-timer. He tried every job there is. He's only missing road construction worker, but that is what they quit their host club job. :hehe:

tabana wrote:Good observation. I haven't seen her in a while. Gone with the wind?

On vacation maybe... I vaguely remember her mentioning going up to Northern California...?

Probably. I just realized that it was the 4th. A lot of people are traveling.

tabana wrote:Probably. I just realized that it was the 4th. A lot of people are traveling.

But the 4th is in the middle of the week. :bleh:

I guess lotsa people are taking the rest of the week off. :victory:

:say_yes: You save a day off, but traveling gets nasty.

We're lucky over here. We have 2 national holidays. June 24th (province) and July 1st (Country). 2 long weekends in a row. :woot:

tabana wrote:We're lucky over here. We have 2 national holidays. June 24th (province) and July 1st (Country). 2 long weekends in a row. :woot:

That's it.

I'm moving to Canada right now. *starts packing*

bmwracer wrote:
That's it.

I'm moving to Canada right now. *starts packing*

BMW-sempai,

What about Japan and Golden Week? That's a whole week!

Madoka wrote:BMW-sempai,

What about Japan and Golden Week? That's a whole week!

Okay, I'm moving to Japan, then. :beaten:

Guess this means I'm a flake. :ashamed:

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The Two Princes

July 05, 2007

The first half of 2007 has been a tale of two princes. Topping Oricon's new twice-a-year Fresh Star Rankings is young golf sensation Ishikawa Ryo (15), popularly known as "Hanikami Oji" (The Shy Prince). A first-year high school student in Tokyo, he found overnight stardom in May when he became the youngest player ever to win a professional golf tournament. Comparisons to Tiger Woods inevitably followed. But the ranking was the only good news yesterday for Ishikawa, as he failed to make the cut in the Japan Amateur Championship. Second in the rankings is Waseda University baseball pitcher Saito Yuuki (19), known as "Hankachi Oji" (The Handkerchief Prince), who shot to fame with his superhuman performance at last summer's national high school baseball tournament. He also recently led Waseda to its first All-Japan Intercollegiate Championship in 33 years. He earned his nickname at Koshien last summer with his habit of wiping the sweat from his brow with a blue handkerchief as he led his team to the championship. The pitcher he beat at Koshien, Tanaka Masahiro (18), was ranked fourth. He turned pro and now plays for the Rakuten Golden Eagles. Topping the female rankings by a huge margin was actress Nagasawa Masami (20), followed by singer Yui (20) and U.S. import Leah Dizon (20).



Male Rankings


1. Ishikawa Ryo (15, golfer) - 195 votes

2. Saito Yuuki (19, Waseda U.) - 141

3. Moody Katsuyama (27, comedian) - 121

4. Tanaka Masahiro (18, Rakuten) - 72

5. Matsuyama Kenichi (22, actor) - 64

6. Matsumoto Jun (23, singer (Arashi), actor) - 57

7. Matsuda Shota (21, actor) - 45

8. Taka & Toshi (comedy duo) - 44

9. Oguri Shun (24, actor) - 38

10. Yamashita Tomohisa (22, singer (NEWS), actor) - 35



Female Rankings


1. Nagasawa Masami (20, actress) - 215 votes

2. Yui (20, singer) - 109

3. Leah Dizon (20, idol) - 98

4. Sawajiri Erika (21, actress) - 78

5. Aoi Yu (21, actress) - 52

6. Aragaki Yui (19, actress) - 52

7. Toda Erika (18, actress) - 44

8. Asao Miwa (21, beach volleyball) - 42

9. Tsuji Nozomi (20, ex-Morning Musume) - 41

10. Nishioka Sumiko (32, comedienne) - 40




• Talento Umemiya Anna (34) has quit her management agency, it was revealed yesterday. Though she had only recently restarted her acting career, it seems she quit Stardust Promotion on June 30, the same day that her ex-boyfriend Haga Kenji (45) was arrested on extortion charges. The pair were a high profile celebrity couple from 1994 to 1999, even publishing a book of nude photos together. A pregnant Umemiya married a businessman in June 2001 but they broke up a year and a half later. Her ex-husband was convicted on illegal gambling charges in July 2004.


Meanwhile, investigators spent three hours searching Haga's \300 million apartment in Tokyo's Meguro district yesterday. Ironically, only a couple of days before his arrest, Haga had been proudly showing off the 29th-floor apartment on the TBS variety show "ObirajiR".

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kinda like the male version of Michelle Wie?

God life is unfair. how can he be so talented at such an age :beaten:


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monta wrote:kinda like the male version of Michelle Wie?

God life is unfair. how can he be so talented at such an age :beaten:

Don't worry. A lot of them end up screwing up, when they discover they have money and fame. They prefer to party all night. ;)

Golf is tough. You either have it or you don't. I know I don't. :pout:

tabana wrote:
Don't worry. A lot of them end up screwing up, when they discover they have money and fame. They prefer to party all night. ;)

Golf is tough. You either have it or you don't. I know I don't. :pout:

At least you know, I haven't even tried...:(

There's still hope for you then. You're lucky enough to live in a place where you can practice it all year long. :)

I started golf when I was 9 or 10 years old. Got bored after a few years, because most of adult players didn't want us on the course. I stopped counting the number of times we almost got killed by one of those idiot's ball.
:beatyou:

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Romance for Nakata Hidetoshi and Yonekura Ryoko?

July 06, 2007

Could there be romance happening between actress Yonekura Ryoko (31) and retired soccer star Nakata Hidetoshi (30)? Today's issue of women's weekly "Josei Seven" has photos of the two enjoying a dinner date in Tokyo late month. They spent about three hours relaxing at an Italian restaurant in the fashionable Azabu district. Yonekura's agency insist they met by chance and were both there with friends. She is currently appearing in the new TBS drama series "Katagoshi no Koibito", which started last night. Nakata, who was previously linked with actress Miyazawa Rie (34), is said to have returned to his home in Paris.


• A comic impersonator has been arrested in a bizarre incident. Eizawa Yosaku (real name Mita Masami, 46), an Eizawa Yokichi lookalike, got into a drunken argument with fellow impersonators at an apartment in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture in the early hours of Thursday morning. He chewed up the earlobe of Tsuntsuku (Tanaka Kenji, 43), a lookalike of Morning Musume guru Tsunku, leaving a wound that will take several weeks to heal.

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from Ebizo XI -> Nakata???

monta wrote:from Ebizo XI -> Nakata???

LOL.

She has dinner with someone and the rumor mill starts.

Of course, if she eats dinner by herself, she's lonely and can't get a date.... If she has dinner with another woman, she's a lesbian.



The life of a star that's single...... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
LOL.

She has dinner with someone and the rumor mill starts.

Of course, if she eats dinner by herself, she's lonely and can't get a date.... If she has dinner with another woman, she's a lesbian.



The life of a star that's single...... :sweat:

though she looks really good with Ebizo. what a :drooling: couple those two. too bad they broke up. that Ebizo dude is such a playboy. :shakehead:

monta wrote:that Ebizo dude is such a playboy. :shakehead:

And Ryoko-chan probably knew it, so she pulled the plug. :applaud:

bmwracer wrote:
And Ryoko-chan probably knew it, so she pulled the plug. :applaud:

yet she chased him to France :hehe:

monta wrote:• A comic impersonator has been arrested in a bizarre incident. Eizawa Yosaku (real name Mita Masami, 46), an Eizawa Yokichi lookalike, got into a drunken argument with fellow impersonators at an apartment in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture in the early hours of Thursday morning. He chewed up the earlobe of Tsuntsuku (Tanaka Kenji, 43), a lookalike of Morning Musume guru Tsunku, leaving a wound that will take several weeks to heal.

Mike Tyson wannabe. :hehe: