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Mare (TV Series)
is a Japanese television drama series, the 92nd ''Asadora'' (morning drama) that was broadcast daily on NHK from March 30, 2015, until September 26, 2015, the same as 2009's ''Asadora'' series ''Tsubasa''. It is about a young woman from the Noto Peninsula who wants to become a patissier. Tao Tsuchiya, who appeared in the ''Asadora'' ''Hanako to Anne'', was cast in the lead role after an audition of 2,020 women. Plot At age ten, Mare Tsumura has decided she has no need for big dreams—she will just live her life step by step, day by day. Her father Tōru has had nothing but big dreams, each of which has ended in failure, causing their family to flee their debts in Tokyo by escaping to a small seaside town in the Noto Peninsula. They are not welcome at first, especially as Tōru keeps on messing things up, but the family finally finds a place to live at the Okesaku's (Fumi and her husband Ganji, who produces salt from seawater), and Mare makes friends with the kids her age. By th ...
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Japanese Television Drama
, also called or J-drama, are television programs that are a staple of Television in Japan, Japanese television and are broadcast daily. Format All major Television networks, TV networks in Japan produce a variety of Drama (genre), drama series including Romance film, romance, Television comedy, comedy, Detective fiction, detective stories, Japanese horror , horror, jidaigeki, Thriller (genre), thriller, Boys' love, BL, and many others. Single episode, or "tanpatsu" dramas that are usually two hours in length are also broadcast. For special occasions, there may be a one or two-episode drama with a specific theme, such as one produced in 2015 for the 70-year anniversary of Surrender of Japan, the end of World War II. Japanese drama series are broadcast in three-month seasons: winter (January–March), spring (April–June), summer (July–September), and autumn or fall (October–December). Some series may start in another month though it may still be counted as a series of a s ...
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Keiko Toda
is a Japanese actress, singer and narrator. Her most famous role is the voice of the children's hero Anpanman on the long running anime ''Soreike! Anpanman''. She was also the voice of Thomas the Tank Engine in the Japanese dub of ''Thomas & Friends'' from Season 1 to Season 8 when she got replaced by Kumiko Higa. She was once married to Shuichi Ikeda and Junichi Inoue. Career Todo first became an actress in fifth grade and then relocated to Tokyo in 1973 to become an idol singer. She then later joined Nachi Nozawa's theatre company. Also a musical theatre actress, she has appeared in musicals like "Sweet Charity" and "Dance of the Fleet Lady". She won Japanese Academy Award as the supporting actress for ''Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald'' in 1997. Toda has dubbed over actresses like Jodie Foster, Linda Hamilton, Sigourney Weaver, Sandra Bullock, Michelle Pfeiffer and Carrie Anne Moss for dubs of American live-action movies. She's voiced Rui Kisugi for the new animated City Hunter ...
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Eri Fuse
Eri may refer to: People * Eri (biblical figure) * Eri (given name), a Japanese feminine given name, including lists of people and fictional characters * Eri (king), the progenitor of the Umu-Eri and Umu-Nri-Igbo ancient Nigerian city-states * Chiemi Eri (1937–1982), Japanese singer and actress * Vincent Eri (1936–1993), Governor General of Papua New Guinea Other uses * Eri silk, a type of silk * Eri-TV, an Eritrean television network * Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo * Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, a hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland * Eldorado Resorts, an American gaming company * Electrical resistivity imaging * Empowerment and Rights Institute, a Chinese human rights organization * Energy and Resources Institute, an Indian research institute * Eridanus (constellation) * Erie International Airport in Pennsylvania, United States * Eritrea * Eri, the collar of a kimono * EarthRights International, an American nonprofit human rights organization * Eri, polit ...
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Eisuke Sasai
Eisuke (written: 永輔, 英輔, 英介, 栄介, 英助 or エイスケ in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese politician *, Japanese politician *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese writer *, Japanese film director *, Japanese writer {{given name Japanese masculine given names Masculine given names Fictional characters * Eisuke Wakura, a character from '' Ultraman Nexus'' ...
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Itsuji Itao
, is a Japanese comedian and actor. He is a member of the comedy duo 130R and former cast member of one of Downtown's previous shows. He usually appears in their batsu games. Filmography (actor) Film *2001 ''Desert Moon'' ... Interviewer *2002 ''The Blessing Bell'' ... Prisoner *2003 ''9 Souls'' as Fujio *2003 ''Josee, the Tiger and the Fish'' ... The Manager *2004 ''Space Police'' *2005 '' Cromartie High: The Movie'' ... Masked Takenouchi, also screenwriter *2005 ''Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims'' ... Naniwa Hotto *2005 ''Hanging Garden'' ... Takashi Kyobashi *2005 ''The Great Yokai War'' *2005 '' Kamen Rider: The First'' *2006 '' One Missed Call: Final'' ... Professor Yoshitaka Kibe *2006 ''Ghost Train'' *2006 ''Death Note: The Last Name'' ... Hikima *2007 ''Pile Driver'' *2007 ''Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad'' *2007 ''Dai Nipponjin'' ... Female Niounojyuu *2007 ''Grow'' *2007 ''Erotic Rampo: Ningen-isu'' *2007 ''Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge'' *2007 '' Big ...
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Yokohama
is the List of cities in Japan, second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous Municipalities of Japan, municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin region, Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the Western world, West following the 1859 end of the Sakoku, policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji (era), Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspap ...
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Japanese Idol
An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese popular culture, Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in other performance skills such as acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements by Talent agent, talent agencies, while maintaining a parasocial relationship with a financially loyal consumer fan base. Japan's idol industry first emerged in the 1960s and became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s due to television. During the 1980s, regarded as the "Golden Age of Idols", idols drew in commercial interest and began appearing in commercials and television dramas. As more niche markets began to appear in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it led to a significant growth in the industry known as the "Idol Warring Period." Today, over 10,000 teenage girls in Japan are idols, with over 3,000 groups active. Japan's idol industry has been used as a model for other pop idol in ...
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Pastry Chef
A pastry chef or pâtissier (; feminine pâtissière, ) is a station chef in a professional kitchen, skilled in the making of pastries, desserts, breads and other baked goods. They are employed in large hotels, bistros, restaurants, bakeries, by caterers, and some cafés. Duties and functions The pastry chef is a member of the classic ''brigade de cuisine'' in a professional kitchen and is the station chef of the pastry department. Day-to-day operations can also require the pastry chef to research recipe concepts and develop and test new recipes. Usually, the pastry chef does all the necessary preparation of the various desserts in advance, before dinner seating begins. The actual plating of the desserts is often done by another station chef, usually the '' garde manger'', at the time of order. The pastry chef is often in charge of the dessert menu, which, besides traditional desserts, could include dessert wines, specialty dessert beverages, and gourmet cheese platters. Th ...
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Lacquerware
Lacquerware are objects decoratively covered with lacquer. Lacquerware includes small or large containers, tableware, a variety of small objects carried by people, and larger objects such as furniture and even coffins painted with lacquer. Before lacquering, the surface is sometimes painted with pictures, inlaid with shell and other materials, or carved lacquer, carved. The lacquer can be maki-e, dusted with gold or silver for example Hirameji and given further decorative treatments. East Asian countries have long traditions of lacquer work, origin of lacquer is from china. going back several thousand years in the cases of China, Japan and Korea. The best known lacquer, an urushiol-based lacquer common in East Asia, is obtained from the dried sap of ''Toxicodendron vernicifluum.'' Other types of lacquers are processed from a variety of plants and insects. The traditions of lacquer work in Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Americas are also ancient and originated independently. Tru ...
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Hanako To Anne
is a Japanese television drama series, the 90th Asadora series broadcast on NHK. It debuted on March 31, 2014, and was broadcast Monday through Saturday mornings, ending on September 27, 2014. It is based on the novel ''An no Yurikago Muraoka Hanako no Shogai'' by Eri Muraoka, which is the story of her grandmother Hanako Muraoka (1893–1968, maiden name Annaka), the first to translate ''Anne of Green Gables'' into Japanese. The drama describes her trials, tribulations and triumphs at school and some of the lifelong friendships she made there, and her life after graduating and working at a publishing company and as a translator. As a subplot, it also narrates the dramatic life of Muraoka's old friend, Byakuren Yanagiwara, the tanka poet who was a cousin of Emperor Taishō. The series stars Yuriko Yoshitaka as Hanako. Anime composer Yuki Kajiura composed the music for the series. The series was a ratings success. Plot The story begins with Hanako and her children narrowly escaping ...
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Patissier
A pastry chef or pâtissier (; feminine pâtissière, ) is a station chef in a professional kitchen, skilled in the making of pastries, desserts, breads and other baked goods. They are employed in large hotels, bistros, restaurants, bakeries, by caterers, and some cafés. Duties and functions The pastry chef is a member of the classic ''brigade de cuisine'' in a professional kitchen and is the station chef of the pastry department. Day-to-day operations can also require the pastry chef to research recipe concepts and develop and test new recipes. Usually, the pastry chef does all the necessary preparation of the various desserts in advance, before dinner seating begins. The actual plating of the desserts is often done by another station chef, usually the ''garde manger'', at the time of order. The pastry chef is often in charge of the dessert menu, which, besides traditional desserts, could include dessert wines, specialty dessert beverages, and gourmet cheese platters. They ...
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