I went to Asakusa to see Tokyo Skytree. Tokyo Skytree (東京スカイツリー Tōkyō Sukaitsurī?) is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010 and reached its full height of 634.0 metres (2,080 ft) in March 2011, making it the tallest tower in the world, displacing the Canton Tower,and the second tallest structure in the world after Burj Khalifa (829.84 m/2,723 ft). The building which has an enormous golden structure at the top is very strange. It is often colloquially referred to as "the golden turd" or "poo building" by many Tokyo residents.
There are paintings of japanese masterpiece game which is painted in ukiyo-e style.
Ukiyo-e, "pictures of the floating world", is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints (or woodcuts) and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, the theatre and pleasure quarters. It is the main artistic genre of woodblock printing in Japan.
WORLD ORDER-The first and last of dance performance units fascinating the world with its original sound and physical expression.
Genki Sudo, who was a martial artist and now actively works as an entertainer and writer etc., organized a performance unit with six excellent dancers. The seven men including the chief choreographer Ryo Noguchi concentrate their inspirations and embody the unique world view.
In his fighting career, Genki Sudo declared to put everything he had into both fighting and entrance performance equally because of his enthusiasm to express his fighting as an exquisite entertainment. Now he launches an all-out sound project – WORLD ORDER. The performance with fully exploiting the dancers' high physical abilities, song by Genki himself, and the pop & sensitive dance music merge into a distinctive world. Such an unparalleled and originative style of expression receives fervent support in Asia, the United States, Canada and the EU.
This is TV commercial of Google+. This quotes last year's speech of Atsuko Maeda.
Translation - "During the last year, I've lived everyday thinking about many different things. I only ask for one thing. Even if you dislike me, please don't dislike AKB. Thank you very much!" (and the text that comes up is) "This year's legend has already begun. Enjoy the AKB48 Election/Selection with Google+." )
The commercial message of suit company in which core members of AKB48 ,Yuko Oshima, Minami Takahashi, Mariko Shinoda, Minami Minegishi, Aki Takagi, Yui Yokoyama, appeared was published May 9.
I like Mariko Shinoda the most.I think it looks good on her.
Atsuko Maeda, one of the most popular members of the all-female idol group AKB48, said she will leave the group.
She has been an actual leader of AKB48 since the group started.
She made a significant contribution to AKB48.
Atsuko Maeda (前田 敦子Maeda Atsuko?, born July 10, 1991 in Ichikawa, Chiba) is a member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. She is in Team A and one of the most prominent members in the group, being voted number one in the 2009 and 2011 Senbatsu Elections. In the 2010 Senbatsu Election, however, she lost to fellow member Yuko Oshima, who was the lead for their 17th Single: Heavy Rotation. She is part of the "Senbatsu" group which consists of AKB48 members that are featured in their most recent singles. On Sunday 25th March, 2012, she announced her retirement or 'graduation' from the group.[1]
AKB48 released "Aitakatta" on the major label Defstar Records. Before this release, two singles were released as independent records. For this song, 20 members were selected from the 36 members of Team A & Team K. Maeda was one of these selected members, and she performed a leading role in the promotional video of this song. She has appeared at the front of every single ever since.
The group's 12th single, "Namida Surprise!", included voting tickets for the 2009 AKB48 Senbatsu Election, where fans can vote for who will be featured in the next single. Maeda won with 4630 votes, becoming AKB48's most popular member and frontgirl for their 13th single, "Iiwake Maybe".[2] However, in 2010, another election was held and Maeda lost to Yuko Oshima, who had 31,448 votes, whereas Maeda had 30,851 votes, so Yuko became the frontgirl for "Heavy Rotation".[3]
Later that year a different type of election was held (AKB48 Janken Senbatsu Tournament) where any member in the group could be front girl. The members were selected by using the rock-paper-scissors method and Mayumi Uchida received the top spot of AKB48's single "Chance no Junban" which marked the first time a relatively unknown member has been at the front of a single.[4] Maeda and Yuko were back at the front spots for the next single, "Beginner".
In 2011, a third AKB48 senbatsu election was held. During the early results, Yuko Oshima was leading with first place. However in the final results Maeda won first place with 139,892 votes whereas Yuko Oshima had 122,843 votes beating her with 17049 votes.[5]
On 25th March 2012, during an AKB48 Concert at the Saitama Super Arena, Maeda announced that she will be graduating from AKB48 soon.[6]
On April 23, 2011, it was announced by Maeda herself at AKB48's handshake event in Nagoya Dome that she would make her solo debut with her debut single "Flower", one of the insert songs for Moshidora, a movie in which Maeda plays the leading role, released on June 22, 2011.[7][8] She is the second AKB48 member to release a solo single afterTomomi Itano with the single "Dear J".
In 2007, Maeda played the sub-leading role in the movie "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata" (「あしたの私のつくり方」?), which was her first performance as an actress. She started shooting this film August 20, 2006 and finished it in late September. After that, she landed various TV drama roles, including lead roles in the dramas "Majisuka Gakuen" and "Q-10."
Maeda, along with fellow AKB member Minegishi Minami, starred in Moshidora, a film released on June 4, 2011, marking her first lead role as a movie actress. Moshidora is a movie about how a weak high school baseball team's caretaker named Minami Kawashima that Maeda plays leads the team to the National High School Baseball Championship by learning strategies from Peter Drucker's business book Management.
The Gundam Series (ガンダムシリーズGandamu Shirīzu?) is ametaseries of anime created by Sunrise studios that features giant robots (or "mecha") called "Mobile Suits" (MS); usually the protagonist's MS will carry the name Gundam.
The metaseries started on April 7, 1979, as a serial TV show calledMobile Suit Gundam. That first TV series has since spawned a franchise that has come to include works released in numerous media. Titles have appeared in the form of multiple television series and OVAs, movies, manga, novels and video games, among other modes. The story from the original 1979 series has been considerably extended with sequels, prequels, side stories and alternate timelines. As a result, the title Gundam has become a collective term for the seven distinct but related timelines that can be pieced together from the stories that appear in the Gundam franchise. Generally speaking, the timelines do not intersect, but they do contain a few common elements such as the titular war machines called Gundam. However, all Gundam timelines and worlds, long after their own anime series, do eventually intersect and combine in the series Turn A Gundam.[1][2]
As of January 21, 2008, the Gundam franchise is a 50 billion yen trademark.[3] A year 2000 press release stated that retail sales of Gundam items had totaled $5 billion.[4] In the 2008 ranking of average sales figures for anime copies sold in Japan (1970-2008 total sales figures averaged by episode), Gundam series were in four of the top five places: Mobile Suit Gundam ranked second, with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny third,Mobile Suit Gundam SEED fourth, and Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam fifth. Also, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing ranked 18th and Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ranked 20th.[5]Gunpla's (Gundam Plastic model) holds 90% of the Japan character plastic model market.[6]
Academics in Japan have also viewed the series as inspiration, with the International Gundam Society being the first academic institution based on an animated TV series.[7]
The building was designed by architect Uheiji Nagano during the period of Japanese rule of Taiwan(1895-1945).
My great-grandfather was working on this building.So I want to visit here.
Bank of Taiwan.
Then I went to Jiufen which is a renowned tourist attraction of Taiwan.
Jiufen became popular in 2001, when its downtown was used a model in the anime movie Spirited Away.
Spirited Away is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produces by Studio Ghibli.
Ice cream.
I ate meat noodle again.
Taiwanese dog.
Down town.
Tea house.
The view from tea house.
Souvenir shop.
Temple.
After that I came back Taipei and I waked around the city.
Night market.
I ate lurou fan which is minced fatty pork served on rice.
Third day, I went back to Tokyo early in the morning.
I got on the EVA AIR's Hello Kitty Jet.It was cute.
