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Want to impress your Japanese girlfriend (or the sexy Kana Tsugihara!) by taking her to your own exclusive island getaway? You can now bid for your very own uninhabited Japanese island, courtesy of the Chugoku Local Finance Bureau who want to auction off  Mitsuko Island, situated in the Seto Inland Sea, 0.6 miles from the coast of the Hiroshima Prefecture. The island is reportedly being sold as part of a national effort to liquidate unused state land.

The island is actually made up of two separate islands, and it’s the Northern one (photo above) which measures 7,600 square meters (or 1.9 acres), that is up for sale.  Back in the day before World War II, the island actually housed a naval hospital but now it’s just overgrown with weeds and trees.  Obviously you have to have mega bucks to buy the island then build a nice resort for Kana to enjoy.

Hurray up and get your bids in as bidding stops tomorrow.

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Japanese band Monkey Majik  is well respected in Japan and the group  has collaborated on singles with Jpop artists M-flo, SEAMO 高田 尚輝, and the Yoshida Brothers 吉田兄弟. In July 2007 they released their fourth full-length album “Sora wa maru de” 空はまるで, (roughly translated into “the sky is so” ) in which the title song “Sora wa maru de” became the first song in Japanese history to reach #1 on USEN Request Chart before being released.  It eventually reached number 3 on the Oricon charts.

Check out this relaxing tune and video

Monkey Majik Sora Wa Maru de music video

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If you’re a regular reader of Japansugoi, you will know we post a lot of sexy Japanese bikini gravure グラビアアイドル models like  Yukie Kawamura, Sayuki Matsumoto and Kana Tsugihara.  All these models have been featured on Japan’s most popular and established gravure idol magazine Sabra サブラ (like FMH, Loaded, Stuff in western countries)

Sabra was published by Shogakukan as a bi-weekly from June 2000 to October 2007 but since then the magazine became a monthly (coming out on the 25th of every month).  There are also several Sabra web sites

• “Sabra net generally” – official Web page sabra
• 「sablog」 - sabra’s blog
• 「sabra net strictly」 – pay site
• 「sabra net easy」「sabra 1day ticket」「sabra net BB」「sabra TV」 -  some premium content sections
• 「sabra×Gyao」「sabra×zero」 – partnership sites with Gyao and Yahoo Japan

Besides the beautiful Japanese gravure idols, there are articles on sports, fashion, technology, and cars.  There is no nudity in Sabra magazine photo shoots.  The magazine also includes DVDs  as bonus items.

Some of the most famous Japanese models and celebrities that got their big breaks from Sabra are Aki Hoshino, Yuki Ishikawa, Rio Natsume, Yuko Ogura, Mayuko Iwasa, Eriko Sato, Sayuri Anzu, Harumi Nemoto, Yuka Kosaka, Misako Yasuda, Miri Hanai, Azusa Yamamoto, Jun Natsukawa, Ayaka Komatsu, Saori Yamamoto, Sayaka Isoyama, Rina Akiyama, Chikako Sakuragai,Chisato Morishita, Mayumi Ono and Reon Kadena.

Aside from regular publication, Sabra also publishes several one shot collection books (without advertising) in a magazine format focused on a single model or group of models throughout years.

Sabra Videos

Natsuki Ikeda  sabra vol.4, April 2009.

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Rina Akiyama, Yuuri Morishita and Natsuko Tatsumi sabra vol.4, April 2009.

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Haruna Yabuki in Okinawa  January 2009 vol.2

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Kana Tsugihara in Okinawa January 2009 vol.2

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At the recent Eco-Products 2009, Japanese companies Oriental Co Ltd and Nakabayashi exhibited their revolutionary White Goat recycling machine which makes toilet paper from shredded office paper by just adding paper and water. The machine has a shredding machine built inside it and the shredded office paper first goes into a hopper where it is untangled in small batches and then dissolved in a pulper.

Any foreign matter is removed in a tank, and the pulp consistency is adjusted. Next, the wet paper is thinned out and dried. The dry paper is wound into finished toilet rolls, which emerge from the outlet one at a time. All of these tasks are done automatically.  The White Goat machine won a top prize at the Monozukuri Nippon awards and it has patents pending.

About 40 sheets of A4 paper takes about half an hour to make one roll of toilet paper and saves 60 cedars trees annually. The white goat machine operates with a standard 100V power supply and comes with the dimensions of W1830 × D810 × H1800mm and  weighs about 600 kg. Commercial release is aimed for summer 2010 and is estimated to cost 9,000,000 Yen.

Now that’s one way to securely destroy documents and save the earth!

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Pretty 23 year old Japanese fashion model Saki Namba (Saki Nanba) 難波 さき  is an exclusive model for Happie NUTS magazine.  The 23 year old from Hyogo who likes singing karaoke, playing video games and watching DVDs recently featured in the new music video Tokyo Tower 東京タワー by Jpop singer  GOKIGEN SOUND ごきげんさん.

GOKIGEN SOUND music video Tokyo Tower

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Like many other fashion models she wants to have a singing career of her own and has sung on a couple of tracks for “gyaru” related compilation albums such as  Campus Summit.  Read more about Saki Namba at her blog here.

Saki Namba music video Nuts on You 難波さき Campus Summit 2008

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Saki Namba music video Happy Candy Magic

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The world’s youngest guitar pro is 9 year old Yuto Miyazawa 宮澤佑門.  This tokyo born  rock guitar child prodigy was discovered by Steve Bernstein, president of Zenbu Media in December 2007  and was named  “The Youngest Professional Guitarist” by Guinness Book of World Records in August, 2008.

Since his discovery, Miyazawa has had the opportunity to play with numerous music legends over the past year such as, G. E. Smith, Les Paul, Galactic, Deep Banana Blackout, Ozzy Osbourne and many more.

In May 2009, Miyazawa appeared on American TV on the  The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where he performed Crazy Train playing guitar and singing lead vocals. After the performance, Ozzy Osbourne came on stage to give words of encouragement and a plaque reward framed in gold. Yuto appeared on stage at Blizzcon 2009 with Ozzy Osbourne.

Yuto’s  favorite guitar is his black with white dots “flying-V” guitar that looks exactly like the one Randy Rhoads used to play when he was a member of Ozzy Osbourne’s band in the ’80s.

Yuko Miyazawa Videos

Playing “Free Bird” in a small Tokyo club:

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his new single ikimasho

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On the the American “Ellen DeGeneres” TV talk show playing “Crazy Train”

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Playing with Ozzy Osbourne Blizzcon 2009

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Living in Japan, you will have noticed many artistic manhole covers or water access points throughout urban areas.  They are often designed to include the mascot or characteristic of the neighborhood/town in which they are situated.

T-shirts look good on any hot japanese  girls and av idol Maria Ozawa 小澤マリア is no exception.  Last year collaborated with Taiwanese fashion brand Outer Space to produce a limited edition T-shirt which features Maria riding cowboy on one of Outer Space’s comic rockets.   These limited edition t-shirts sold out quickly as expected.

Maria Ozawa also collaborated with t-shirt maker Gawai for a similar limited edition “Japan g-girls private collection”.  Good luck finding this too though you might get lucky on ebay.

Fun Outerspace X Maria Ozawa behind the scenes video with Maria in Taiwan

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Sexy Maria Ozawa in white swimsuit stretching by the pool

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Ayako Hatta 八田亜矢子 is a 25 year old Japanese TV “talento”  from Fukuoka prefecture.  Although she is a graduate of the University of Tokyo and has appeared on numerous TV shows,  she is most well known as one of the Obaka-aidoru (dumb idols), or, more simply, “bakadoru” on quiz show Hexagon 2.

She’s also appeared in fashion magazines CanCam, ViVi and JJ, TV commercials for ANA, NEC, Nexon and Tokyo Gas.

Ayako Hatto Videos

Ayako Hatto rodeo boy

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Ayako Hatto nurse cosplay rodeo boy

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Ayako Hatta nurse cosplay

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Rio Hirai 平井理央 is an cute Japanese 27 year old TV announcer with Fuji TV.  She started off as an actress in the TV show in 2003 Animal Doctor Dobutsu no Oisha-san 動物のお医者さん (TV Asahi) but has since done more announcing and modeling than acting.   She has also appeared in TV commercials for Asahi diet drink Slat 88 with fellow announcer Tomoko Honda, commercials for Hot Fantasy Odaiba ホット ファンタジー オダイバ, Fuji Golden Week Super and Shiseido.

Don’t let this cutie fool you, although she started as teen fashion model, she’s a graduate of Keio University and active athlete having playing volleyball in high school and she recently completed the 2009 Tokyo Marathon. As a TV sports announcer she is known for wearing sexy clothes especially when interviewing young budding sports superstars.  More about Rio Hirai here.

Rio Hirai Videos

Marathon Training in Hawaii

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Interviewing Seibu Lions winning the series

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Rio and Tomoko Salon TVCM Asahi Slat 88

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As a 17 year old just entering show biz

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Christmas dinner date with Rio

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