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In Japan, any organization that supports a candidate needs to register itself as a political party.Each of these parties have some local or national influence. [1] This article lists political parties in Japan with representation in the National Diet, either in the House of Representatives (lower house) or in the House of Councillors (upper house).
Japan's low birth rate and shrinking percentage of young people, coupled with disruptions to some ceremonies in recent years (such as an incident in Naha in 2002, when drunken Japanese youths tried to disrupt the festivities) and a general increase in the number of 20-year-olds who do not feel themselves to be adults have led to decreased ...
During an AKB48 handshake event, participants are not allowed to bring mobile phones, video cameras, or sound recording equipment into the venue, they must have their hands checked by staff before shaking hands, and then disinfect them with ethanol and disinfectant wipes. In tightly guarded venues, each person's handbag is checked to ensure the ...
This is a list of gravure idols (グラビアアイドル, gurabia aidoru), who are glamour models in Japan that are generally more provocative than regular idols, though not to the point of posing nude.
The country is holding a contest in which 20- and 30-year-olds come up with business plans to encourage more drinking.
Takenoko-zoku (竹の子族, lit. "bamboo shoot tribe") describes a type of dance group active from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s in Tokyo, especially in Harajuku. The teenagers, mainly girls but often with one boy leading, were colorfully dressed and danced in a distinctive style on the sidewalk to music from stereos. [ 1 ]
Before her Playmate appearance, Oshima appeared in the music video for Nelly's single "Shake Ya Tailfeather". [9] She also appeared in several episodes of The Girls Next Door reality show on the E! network. She was cast as herself in the comedy movie The House Bunny (2008), and was also in the sci-fi movie Race to Witch Mountain (2009). [10]
But, as events this week in Paris have once again shown, when it comes to women’s skating, Japan’s teenage girls are on fire. For the second consecutive Olympics, Team Japan dominated the ...