“Denki hybrid” or electric assist bicycles have for many years been a preferred mode of transportation for harried housewives—ferrying children and groceries from town to home. These hybrid scooters  also win over cars and scooters in...

The ideal Japanese girlfriend, Nozomi Sasaki stars in the latest Lil’B Jpop music video Tsunaida Te つないだ手.   Lil’B (which stands for Little Betrayal) is comprised of  MIE (Vocal) and Aila (Rap). The song is the ending theme to anime...

The cool Nissan Cube (Nissanキューブ) 2009 TV commercial uses black and white characters from Japanese manga to jazz up the TV commercial.  The title of the commercial is “SHIFT_the way you move”.  Model Shown: Cube 15X V Selection, Cube 15X M...

My Little Lover are a Jpop group formed way back in 1995 originally with Takeshi Kobayashi (keyboards), Akko (vocals) and Kenji Fujii (guitar).  The band have gone through several incarnations with only Akko remaining from the orginal core. They have...

A-class are image girls/idol group for the annual Tokyo Auto Salon Event. Every year since 2003 different race queens and gravure idols have been selected to be part of A-class. The  number of race queens in A-class  increased from 4 to 8 in 2007...