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KURAKI MAI - YUME GA SAKUHARU/YOU AND MUSIC AND DREAM (First Press Limited Edition)(Japan Version)

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Release on 19 March 2008

First Press Limited Edition(Japan Version) Normal Edition(Japan Version)

Beautiful and talented Kuraki Mai releases her first music work in this year(2008). This is a double A-sided singles 夢が咲く春 / ゆめがさくはる(Yume ga Sakuharu) and You and Music and Dream. Both songs are penned by Kuraki Mai . Mid-tempo dance 夢が咲く春 / ゆめがさくはる(Yume ga Sakuhara) has a light beat and catchy music. You and Music and Dream is the song for the latest installment of TBS's nature program Mystery Mother Planet.

In line with the nature theme, the CD jacket is printed on enviromental friendly paper. This is the first First Press Limited Edition that comes with an eco bag(in yellow, orange and green color).

Kuraki Mai's offcial website: http://www.mai-kuraki.com/

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HIRAI KEN - FARKIN' POP (Japan Version)

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Release on 12 March 2008

Hirai Ken , the Japanese R&B pop star, has finally come back to the music entertainment world after his last released compilation album Ken Hirai 10th Anniversary Complete Single Collection '95 - '05 Utabaka in the year 2005. Considering this album Fakin' Pop as Hirai Ken's seventh album after his last original album SENTIMENTALovers dated November 2004.

Fakin' Pop includes year 2005's POP STAR, plus Elegy and 君の好きなとこ / Kimi no Sukinatoko, both released at the beginning of year 2007.

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MEIJI - PUPURUN

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Today, the Japanese tibits that is on learnsimplejapanese.com's menu is Meiji's Pupurun(ぷぷるん) sweets. Pupurun(ぷぷるん
) sweets is actually jelly-like gummy sweets; looks like fruit juices wrap in a thin layer of sweet sheet. Pupurun(ぷぷるん) sweets comes in 3 flavors: Apple in red packaging, Lemon in yellow packaging and Grapes in green packaging. From the photo below, it seems that the packaging is a zip bag. So if you can't finish the whole packet, you can zip it up and keep it! That's so thoughful of the Japanese!

Photo taken from the their official website.

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ARASHI - STEP AND GO (Normal Edition)(Japan Version)

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Released on 20 February 2008

The popular Johnny Entertainment's 5 members boy band, Arashi, releases their 21st single this year 2008, "Step and Go". This single's B-side is the song for C-1000 Lemon Water（C1000レモンウオーターTVCMソング）, of which Arashi advertises last year.

This edition comes with a bonus track, the C1000 Lemon Water（C1000レモンウオーターTVCMソング） CM song "ふゆ（冬）を抱（だ）きしめて ( Fuyu wo Dakishimete)".

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UTADA HIKARU - HEART STATION / STAY GOLD (Japan Version)

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Release on 20 February 2008

J-pop singer and songwriter Utada Hikaru has released her first single in year 2008! This is her 20th single which comes in the form of a double A-side single. This single contains the new songs "HEART STATION" and "Stay Gold", which is also the CM song for ASIENCE hair lotion.

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MEIJI - FRAN AROMATIER

Interesting Japanese Stuff

I would like to introduce to you this Japanese tibits(o-ka-shi / おかし / お菓子): Fran Aromatier by Meiji. Fran Aromatier is similar to Pocky's biscuits(bi-su-ke-tto / ビスケット) sticks that's coated with a layer of chocolate(cho-ko-re-to / チョコレート)/strawberry(i-chi-go / いちご / 苺)/etc. There are also many different series of Fran. Currently showing on the Meiji's official website is the Winter(fu-yu / 冬 / ふゆ) series: Winter(fu-yu / 冬 / ふゆ) Premium.

A different series is showed in the commercial clip that I am going to show you, and that is Fran Aromatier. Fran series of biscuits(bi-su-ke-tto / ビスケット) sticks are coated with 2 layers of coating. The first layer is the normal white(shi-ro / しろ / 白) chocolate(cho-ko-re-to / チョコレート) and covering it, the second layer, is the actual flavor. This differentiate Meiji's Fran from Pocky's. In fact, with 2 layers of coating, Meiji's Fran biscuits(bi-su-ke-tto / ビスケット) sticks are certainly thicker than Pocky's biscuits(bi-su-ke-tto / ビスケット) sticks!