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Back in 1995, the gyaru fashion magazine “egg”made its debut and featured their own models in each issue. With the decline of Gyaru popularity, the magazine shut down in May 2014 but the magazine was revived online back in March 2018. In the past few Read More …
Japan-based streaming music service AWA has a business tie-in with global short movie platform, TikTok. With this new business alliance, TikTok users will now be able to utilize 25,000 songs such from groups and artists such as DA PUMP and Koda Kumi when shooting a Read More …
For those who are on TikTok, there are numerous Japanese celebs that are on there (some who post more than others). With many enjoying Part 1 of “Our Pick of 10 Japanese Celebrities to Follow on Tik Tok”, here is Part 2. Please note that Read More …
For those who are on TikTok, there are numerous Japanese celebs that are on there (some who post more than others). But here are our top picks worth checking out! HKT48’s Tashima Meru (@meruchan0107) HKT48/AKB48’s Tomonagi Mio (@30m.i.o30) Kinoshita Yukina & husband, comedian Fujimoto Toshifumi Read More …
August 2nd was a sad for a lot of video creators known as “Musers” from Japan who supported the Musical.ly phone app. With 100 million active users since 2014, as of August 2nd, the app is no longer available and users were migrated to TikTok, Read More …
Koda Kumi’s “Megumi no Hito” has become so popular that people are creating TikTok, Musical.ly or short YouTube videos online. The song came in 1st on LINE MUSIC’s daily ranking, 2nd place on Apple music’s music video rankings and has led to people to post Read More …