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This dorama is about a girl who was diagnosed with a disease called “Spinocerebellar Degeneration” when she was 15 years old. She kept writing in her diary to remember her experiences until she could no longer hold a pen. Aya wished to live until the end of her life, and the purpose of writing in the diary was to remind herself to not give up…

Utada Hikaru’s 14th single, “Be My Last”, was released on the 28th of September 2005. This single debuted at the top position on the daily Oricon charts on its release day. “Be My Last” also managed to achieve the first position on the weekly chart, selling about 80,043 copies to date. By taking a look at the sales amount of Hikki’s earlier releases, one can notice that, compared to Hikki’s standards this single didn’t fare well, at all…

Dai Nagao always held one dream into his heart: to have his own band. In 1999 avex gave him the chance to turn this dream into a reality. Auditions were held, and Dai chose Van Tomiko as the lead singer, and Ryo Owatari as the guitarist. And Do As Infinity (DAI) was born. Their debut was on the 29th of September in 1999. DAI began their performances live in Shibuya with few fans. Later they began to rise up to new heights as the years went by and took the whole of Asia by storm.

Rie fu, one the talented singer in Japan who influenced by 70’s American Pops during the 3 years life in Maryland,US. These 3 years also took away her Japanese-slang English, maybe this is one of the reasons she tends to mix the Japanese and English lyrics. Some of the J-Pop fans may took a lots of attention on her songs because of a anime Bleach.

I will call Locofrank as Japanese Greenday, but I am sure they not gonna release any song like Japanese Idiot. Those who love Greenday should give Locofrank a try, I know you will love their songs…