Yuka Hirata 平田裕香 is a 26 year old actress and  gravure idol from Hokkaido who started her showbiz career in 1998 and is probably best known to the otaku crowd Mele in the Super Sentai Series Juken Sentai Gekiranger.

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McDonalds Japan does alot of advertising and promotion tie ups. Here are some of their Happy Meal TV commercials featuring Pokemon, Sponge Bob and Naruto.

McDonalds Japan Happy meal TVCMs

Pokemon

Naruto

Sponge Bob ハッピーセット CM

Pretty twenty one year old Japanese actress and model Sari Kobyashi 小林さり (who goes by the English name Sally) is from Kyoto Japan.  The 157 cm tall babe with measurement: B80 W57 H88  (was a junior idol under the name Sari Kiri 桐嵯梨) and debuted as Sari Kobayashi in 2008 . Sari  is currently an exclusive model for Japanese fashion magazine “JJ”

Sari was on the finalists in the Miss Magazine 2009 competition.  She has also released 5 gravure DVDs,  appeared in men’s magazines Weekly Young Jump and Weekly Shonen and one photo book “Sari Collection” last year.  As a fashion model she also appeared in last years fashion shows Tokyo Girls Collection and Kobe Collection.  Read more...

Why we like McDonalds Japan…even the packaging is cuter in Japan!

Just like beverages, there are various different seasonal or special burger/sandwiches offered in Japan throughout the year.  A news report from Japan’s NNN below explains new seasonal offerings from MOS Burger, KFC, McDonalds and Lotteria to kick off the summer season.

From May – June/July KFC has the a new BBQ Roast Chicken Sandwich with tangy pineapple sauce.   Japan’s own MOS burger has the BLT Tobikiri Hamburger, Lotteria has it’s butter & soy Sauce Chicken Burger, while McDonalds Japan brings back its double Big Mac (MegaMac).

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Caption: Sorry McDonald-san, I will never ever eat Burger King again.

Mcdonalds Japan マクドナルドの has always spent big on TV commercials starting all the way back in 1977.

Here are the TV ads from 1977 and 1978.  Do you remember these characters?

1977

1978

Yoko Mitsuya  三津谷葉子 is a pretty 26 year old Japanese actress and former gravure idol from Tokyo.  This E-cup beauty entered the show biz world when she made her  debut as a teen model  in the photo book Baby Kiss (and was photographed alongside such idols as  Rei Yoshii and Reiko Omori). In 2000 she was chosen as crowned as the Visual Queen of the year.

Between 2000-2005 she released 16 DVDs and 13 photo books.

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Just before Christmas, Burger King Japan brought in the whopping NY Pizza Burger comprised of four Whopper patties, slices of pepperoni and mozzarella cheese with marinara and Tuscan sauce on a 9 1/2 inch sesame seed bun.

This mammoth burger (pizza) which contains 2,530 calories, 144 grams of fat (59 grams saturated) and 380 mg of cholesterol is meant to shared by six or so people as yummy “party food”

Here’s a segment from Japanese TV on the NY Pizza Burger and other big burgers and “party foods” from McDonalds Japan, First Kitchen, Lotteria and others.

Japan is relatively an expensive place to travel or do business in because of the exchange rate of the Yen. However,  there are options for those traveling on a budget and CNN’s Business Traveler Show with Richard Quest has a segment on how to do business in Japan on a budget of 22,000 Yen per day.