JapanSugoi » Japan Art and Fashion http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress Everything Cool about Japan Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:45:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Naoto Fukasawa’s real fruit drink carton design http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/naoto-fukasawas-real-fruit-drink-carton-design/ http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/naoto-fukasawas-real-fruit-drink-carton-design/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:46:55 +0000 admin http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/?p=497 http://item.slide.com/r/1/73/i/0LapH0Dm4j9ri0wwPMpOjn6VuCtApC8h/

Naoto Fukasawa 深澤 直人is a 53 year old Japanese industrial designer from  Yamanashi Prefecture who has many design awards.  One of his designs we like is his fruit drink box carton which has the look and feel of real fruits.

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Fukasawa is a also professor at Musashino Art University and a visiting lecturer at Tama Art University.

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Earlier this year, wanting to create some publicity,  Japanese hair fashion magazine HairMag.jp. hired some bald models to walk around Harajuku and Shibuya.  The Japanese girls with no hair (wearing bald wigs actually) created quite a stir everywhere they went.

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Nozomi Sasaki 佐々木希 is a popular young Japanese fashion model who has appeared in Japanese fashion magazine Pinky and various gravure idol photo shoots. She is also an aspiring actress.

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Nozomi Sasaki Videos

Nozomi Sasaki making faces in weekly young jump

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Nozomi Sasaki taking a bath

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Nozomi Sasaki slide show

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]]> http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/nozomi-sasaki-hot-japanese-fashion-model-and-gravure-idol/feed/ 0 Japanese model naoko tokuzawa 徳澤直子 videos http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/japanese-model-naoko-tokuzawa-%e5%be%b3%e6%be%a4%e7%9b%b4%e5%ad%90-videos/ http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/japanese-model-naoko-tokuzawa-%e5%be%b3%e6%be%a4%e7%9b%b4%e5%ad%90-videos/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:21:51 +0000 admin http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/?p=617 http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z51/raitoringo/tokuzawa-naoko-81216013.jpg

Naoko Tokuzawa 徳澤直子 is a 22 year old Japanese fashion model from Kawasaki City in Kanagawa prefecture. She models for CanCam キャンキャン magazine as well as JJ and Seventeen fashion magazines.

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Naoko has appeared on TV commercials for Lotte, Kao,  Coca Cola, CanCam, Nissan and ABC Mart.  She’s also appeared on various TV shows on Fuji, NTV, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo and TBS.  She was probably seen most on Fuji TV’s morning TV show Mezamashi TV show.

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Naoko Tokuzawa Videos

Naoko Tokuzawa Nissan TV commercial

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Naoko Tokuzawa Models room CanCam

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Alisa Urahama 浦浜 アリサ is a half Japanese half American Japanese fashion model born in Hyogo prefecture who debuted as a model for JJ magazine at age 16.  The 172 cm (5′9″) 16 year old has also appeared in magazines 25ans, GINGER, その他雑誌 SWEET , GLAMOROUS, 流行通信 “Fashion communication” , 流行通信girl “Communication fashion girl”, S-cawaii, NYLON, Invitation, MEN’S NONNO, Anan, Tarzan and weekly SPA.

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She has appeared on TV commerciasl for Allie (Kanebo cosmetics) and Kirin Beverage  “Black Lemon Ginger” , Kanebo, Big Echo, Baskin Robbins, Disneyland and Disneysea.

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Alisa also hosts various shows on MTV Japan including House Nation.

Alisa Urahama Videos

Alisa Urahama Kanebo Allie TV commercial

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Alisa Urahama Kirin Lemon TV commercial

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Hosting MTV Japan House Nation

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House Nation Resort

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]]> http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/alisa-urahama-new-japanese-model/feed/ 0 Maki Nishiyama top Japanese fashion model http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/maki-nishiyama-top-japanese-fashion-model/ http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/maki-nishiyama-top-japanese-fashion-model/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:14:17 +0000 admin http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/?p=612 http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2555/3758159003_a869ff94bb.jpg

Maki Nishiyama 西山茉希 is a 23 year old Japanese fashion model from Niigata prefecture. She was scouted by a modeling agent in 2004 and became an exclusive CanCam model in 2005.

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In the last few year’s she’s become even more popular and has been the image girl for Daikin Industries and AngelHeat and appeared on TV commercials for for Dihatsu, NTT,  Kao Soap, Toho and JR East.

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In 2007 Maki Nishiyama unveiled her bridal dresses design called the Bon Visage Collection.

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She is rumored to be dating Akanishi Jin of popular Jpop group KAT-TUN.

Maki Nishiyama Videos

Maki Nishiyama video slideshow

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Maki Nishiyama Daikin TV commercial

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Maki Nishiyama Angel Heart Watches Commercial

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Maki Nishiyama CanCam TV making of TV commercial

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Maki Nishiyama NTT TV commercial

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Maki Nishiyama TBC TV commercial

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Maki Nishiyama Dihatsu TV commercial

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Maki Nishiyama on KAT-TUN tv show

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]]> http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/maki-nishiyama-top-japanese-fashion-model/feed/ 0 Lena Fujii, top Japanese fashion model http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/lena-fujii-top-japanese-fashion-model/ http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/lena-fujii-top-japanese-fashion-model/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:47:16 +0000 admin http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/?p=610 http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2412/2394642007_efe03ff1db.jpg

Lena Fujii (Lena Fuji or Rina Fuji) 藤井リナ is a 25 year old  top Japanese fashion and lingerie model from Tokyo who is Japanese(3/4) and American (1/4).  She is best known for her appearances for Japanese fashion magazines ViVi, sweet,  VOCE, Lip, spring, CUTIE and being one of the popular Peach John lingerie models.

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Lena Fujii is also currently the spokesmodel for CANMAKE Cosmetics and was featured on the covers of DJ Kawasaki’s albums “Beautiful” and “Beautiful Too”, where she was a vocalist in the song “BRIGHT LIKE LIGHT feat. LENA FUJII”.

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DJ Kawasaki later went on to produce Fujii’s debut 7-song house/techno album, titled “LENA” on April 2nd 2008.

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Lena released her 1st Photo Book titled 「LENA」 in the same month and later that year, she  On released “Various Artists「ViVi presents HOLIDAY STYLE selected by LENA FUJII” a compilation album of some of her favorite songs.

Lena Fujii Videos

Lena Fujii video slide show

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Lena Fujii Bright like light MV

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Lena Fujii Higher MV

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Lena Fujii On Barks music TV

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Lena Fujii on Disney Mobile TV Commercial

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Lena Fujii on NTT TV Commercial

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Lena Fujii at MAX pr event

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Meisa Kuroki 黒木メイサ, is a pretty 21 year old  Japanese actress, model, and singer born in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.  She is a top fashion model for popular Japanese fashion magazine, JJ.

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Her father is half Japanese and half Panamanian and her mother is Okinawan.

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Meisaa has appeared in Japanese films Onaji Tsuki o Miteiru (同じ月を見ている, Seeing the Same Moon) (2005), Kamyu Nante Shiranai (カミュなんて知らない, Who’s Camus Anyway?) (2006), Chakushin Ari: Final (着信アリ Final, One Missed Call: Fainaru) (2006), Tada, Kimi o Aishiteru (ただ、君を愛してる, But, I love you) (2006), Taitei no Ken (大帝の剣, The Great Sword) (2007),  Crows Zero (クローズＺＥＲＯ, Kurōzu ZERO) (2007), Bekushiru 2077 Nihon Sakoku (ベクシル 2077日本鎖国, Bekushiru – 2077 Japan National Isolation) (2007), Subaru (2009) and Crows Zero 2 (2009).

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You can also see Meisa on TV shows Danso no Reijin (2008), Chance ! (2009) and Ninkyo.

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She debuted as a Jpop singer in 2008 whe she released her debut single, “Like This”. This year she has a new CD Shock -Unmei and plans another release Atttitude in early 2010.

Meisa Kuroki Videos

Meisa Kuroki Toshiba TV commercial

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Meisa Kuroki Like This MV

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Meisa Kuroki Shock MV

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Meisa Kuroki Bad Girl MV

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Meisa Kuroki video slideshow

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]]> http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/meisa-kuroki-top-japanese-fashion-model-actress-and-jpop-singer/feed/ 0 Sayo Aizawa, top Japanese fashion model http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/sayo-aizawa-top-japanese-fashion-model/ http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/sayo-aizawa-top-japanese-fashion-model/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:46:33 +0000 admin http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/?p=604 http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3142/2823357719_9e8e7248fe.jpg

Sayo Aizawa 相沢紗世 is a popular Japanese model from Hokkaido. Her real name is Hiroko Ueda (上田寛子).

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Sayo Aizawa 相沢紗世 is best known for her appearances for Japanese fashion magazine  Classy,  TV commercials Melty Kiss Chocolate, Coca Cola Honda, Accuvue and KDD.

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Sayo has also acted in NHK’s morning dorama titled ‘”Dondo Bare” and Sapura (Fuji TV) and Haruka (Fuji TV)

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Read more about Sayo at her blog here.

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Sayo Aizawa Videos

Meiji Pupurun TV commercial

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0101 TV commercial

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Mint Blue

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Melty Kiss TV commercial

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Honda

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Honda PR event

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Accuvue with  Ema Rikumori

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Sayo Aizawa on NTV 2002

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Can you guess how old the pretty model in the photos is? Her name is Rika Tomita 冨田リカ  is a pretty older a Tokyo Eiwa University graduate 東洋英和女学院大学, housewife and former kindergarten and cram school teacher turned Japanese fashion model and parenting counselor. She is also an incredibly beautiful 45 years old.

Rika Tomita

Rika Tomita

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Although she had chances during her college days to do modeling she didn’t and only became a model at age 41 when she was featured as a magazine readers STORY who showed off her fashion style. With that success, she has been featured in her fashion books Tomita Style Book and Tomita Power Style and she has become a popular print model for magazines that target Japanese ladies over 40.

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Rika has also appeared in several TV commercials for Bel Japon, Mandom and Estee Lauder.  Don’t you wish you had a Japanese girlfriend of wife who looks as fashionable and stylish as Rika Tomita?

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