Japan's covid state of emergency expires on Sept 30 https://www.reuters.com/business/he...ate-emergency-this-month-minister-2021-09-28/ The economy needs kickstarting but they will likely take it slow. Akb48 has already released the theatre schedule for early Oct and its still 2 member shows According to the article "Nearly 60% of the population is fully vaccinated and the government has said all those who want shots will have had them by November."
I don't know of an alternative site but I just want to say I'm sad to hear about jpopsuki. Although I haven't used it for a long time it was thanks to the site that I was able to discover Jpop back at the start of 2015 before my first visit to the country at a time when it seemed that only H!P groups were on YouTube. Well yes, AKB48 also put MVs on YT at the time but not the current A-sides nor any B-sides. So it looks like 'Sayonara' to jpopsuki?
Spectacular video of a 300m-tall TV antenna mast in North Yorkshire, England being demolished by explosives today following a fire which left it in a dangerous condition: if the video does not show watch the video here
I had an invite to SugoiMusic before, but I didn't sign up in time and it expired about 3 days after the invite was sent to me. I'll probably ask the sender to send another if I move back to Australia. I'll miss JPopSuki if it disappears. My profile says I joined in 2009, but I'm pretty sure I joined there around 2005. I was the first one to upload UVERworld's D-tecnoLife PV back in the day. I think I made another upload or two after that, but those were back using the older system.
Wedding of the year. if the video does not show watch the video here With subs: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/26/japan-princess-mako-marries-loses-royal-status full version if the video does not show watch the video here
The Gundam Cafe in Akihabara (which took over the old AKB48 Cafe and Shop) will close on 2022/01/30: https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/wakiba/find/1363129.html The other Gundam Cafes in Odaiba, Osaka and Fukuoka will also close in January.
well, they must have invested a lot into the expansion of the Akihabara location ..... and then saw their (predicted) income just evaporate with the corona crisis I guess
New Year's message from the Emperor and Empress if the video does not show watch the video here And a Happy New Year from me too.
The case of Mafumafu & Rushia from Hololive feels like Miichan's case 9 years ago. I worry to them, because they may end worse than Miichan.
I could state it's kinda delusional of people to think they will have a shot at dating an well known idol as a fan, but then again it seems that's exactly what happened to Miichan (otoh he's a sort of celebrity himself) (there are some articles bringing up her dating started in december 2019 when she still was an AKB member, but I don't think anyone really cared about that as she already announced her graduation) from the one article I read these 'fans' seem to think they are entitled to a lot more than Miichan's fans did (although for sure there must have been a portion that felt the same) Miichan's backlash seemed to stem more from her reaction, by people who though she had damaged AKB's image by what she did, than from her actual dating scandal
Erika Murashige entered Miss Model Press. voting begins Feb.21 https://twitter.com/MurashigeErika/status/1493495626944102402?t=WsJgnLcbg2cL1vjFBMSGGQ&s=19
Scary video from a storm-hit harbour ferry in Hamburg, Germany today: if the video does not show watch the video here Very fortunately nobody was badly injured.
That will ruin your day .... :/ The wind subsided now for a bit, but sometimes it almost felt like I have a wooden house and not one with concrete walls I just read the Dutch railways stopped running trains after 14:00 hours and the Dutch Meteorological Institute warns it will get even worse tomorrow