Photos from Super GT Malaysia 2009 – Japanese race queens Yukie Morikawa (L) and Megumi Furusawa for Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS…

Photos from Super GT Malaysia 2009 – Japanese race queens Yukie Morikawa (L) and Megumi Furusawa for Lexus Team LeMans ENEOS…

SPEED, arguably the most popular Japanese all-girls pop group in late 90s, is officially back with their 16th single, “S.P.D” on May 27 after years of hiatus. Some promotional images below… [MV was deleted from Youtube unfortunately]

Popular Japanese actress Maki Horikita in Shonen Magazine (no.21-22, 2009)…

Japanese commercial (2008) featuring popular model Yuri Ebihara, often referred to as Ebi-chan by her fans. You won’t know what’s the ad is about until the last few seconds; give it a good guess while enjoying her overloaded cuteness…
I’ll explain a bit about the senselessness at the first comment.
[video credits: chefprotoss@youtube]
Magazine scan of Japanese voice actress Aya Hirano, about her photoshoot in Malaysia last December which created quite a buzz among Malaysian netizens.
The photos (or probably in videos) are included in Hirano’s “I Love You” DVD which was released in March 2009… [image via Sushipafu]

Cold Stone Creamery, an ice-cream parlor franchise from Arizona, USA, is known for its mix-ins and lively service culture where the workers would sing a tune or two when tipped by the customers.
Tipping is not common in Asia though; so I guess the staff would probably sing along whenever they feel like it. Sharing some videos of the staff in action from Cold Stone Creamery outlets in Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan…
Japan – Forget ice cream, the girls are champs…
Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF) is one of the largest anime trade fairs in the world; the 2009 event was held at Tokyo Big Sight on March 18th-21st.
Contrary to most anime conventions, TAF doesn’t allow public cosplay (it’s a trade fair afterall), but the booth babes were probably doing enough to pull in some big crowd. Sharing some photos taken by Exoduz during the TAF 2009…
Gravure idol Mayu Oya wins the annual Japanese Race Queen of the Year Award for 2008-2009 season. Mayu is working with Zent Sweeties in the Super GT series.

Check out some Zent Sweeties’ photos from the Sepang race in June 2008.