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'Never Stop Dreaming' is a song from Dreamboat Money's upcoming album, If Found Please Listen. Dreamboat Money is a personal music project of Vancouver based Phil and Erica Lehmann. The embedded message that we all should follow our dreams and live harmoniously together makes it a perfect theme song of this blog, Never Stop Dreaming. I hope you enjoy listening this song.

Overall Winner: Masahiro Miyasaka of Japan for the image “Milky Way

At Hibari-kei, your maid just might be a master – actually they ALL are, since this unique floating Maid Cafe is the first in Japan to feature cross-dressing male maid servers.

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe will host an art exhibition of Kazuo Oga. This is the art director of such Studio Ghibli masterpieces as My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke. Visit the exhibition if you want to see the original paintings of these famous anime movies.

Had the radio on the other day and heard an interview with Diane Birch, who was in Tokyo.

According to what I heard, Diane seems to have fallen in love with Japan and wises she could live here.

The attached video Diane's song Fools, which I thought was a Carole King comeback effort the first time I heard it.

Misaki Omukai, an beautiful ama diver from Iwate Prefecture has become popular online recently because of a video of her featured on NHK. Most ama divers are older women who dive into the ocean for abalone, but Misaki has become well known because of her looks and personality.

Even more amazing photos from Kobe, Luminarie 2009 - the Light Festival.

According to the fashion industry magazine WWD, the ultra-popular Japanese fashion brand Tsumori Chisato will be collaborating with French brand Petit Bateau on a Fall/Winter 2010 capsule collection for infants, children, and adults.

Among the alarming increase in child pornography cases to strike Japan in 2009 are a number of particularly disturbing incidents: Child porn made and sold by the children's own mothers.

The immense amazing Yurakucho forum given the HDR workover.

Another wonderful sake for he seasons. Kokuryu-Tarekuchi Usunigori. aka Black Dragon.

Mitsuko Zahar is a Japanese/..well Japarisian Journalist who lives in the Marais…etc,etc

The standards at the school, and indeed anywhere you go in Yokohama / Tokyo, are as follows:
A- Wham’s Last Christmas
B- Mariah Carey’s All I want for Christmas is you.
C- Tatsuro Yamashita’s Christmas Eve
D- John Lennon’s So this is Christmas (War is over)

Why not share the wonders and beauty of Japan with your friends and family through your own words and pictures? Show them what they are missing out!

LIVE JAPAN! is a campaign which gives expats and those who have visited Japan an opportunity to share their unique perspectives about Japan through their Customized Japan Guidebook.

Women’s beauty should not be intimidating, but beautiful women make men lose self-control. Beautiful women flaunting their intractable personality, is not passive beauty, but charm that can destroy men’s rationality. Often, when beautiful women formed into a group, they will intimidate men with great pressure.