Yahoo! Japan is currently holding an auction for someone to have his or her image projected from the cockpit section of the rebuilt life-size Gundam.
The auction, which opened on May 10 with a starting bid of 1 yen (US$0.01), currently has a bid of 509,000 yen (about US$6,372). The bid will end at 11:59 p.m. on May 16 in Japan.
The winning bidder will need to provide various images such as a full-body photograph, and photos from multiple angles of the face and hair. A digitally-rendered image will then be created of the winner and projected from the statue.
The winning amount will be donated to charity to aid the victims of last year's earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan.
A video of an earlier test of the cockpit feature can be viewed below.
Universal Studios Japan (USJ) in Osaka will launch a new attraction based on the ''Harry Potter'' movies in the latter half of 2014.
“We will build several attractions, including a school for wizards,” a spokesman of USJ said.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida
With a total investment of around 45 billion yen, the entertainment park in the city of Osaka will recreate castles and villages that appeared in the films about the boy wizard in a new corner of the park to be constructed on part of its parking lot.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida
USJ expects the number of visitors to increase by several million from the current 8 million or so annually.
Parade at Universal Studios Japan
The operator of USJ which opened in 2001, is a private firm licensed by the U.S. Universal group. It has attractions featuring Sesame Street, Peter Pan’s Neverland, and the Land of Oz, among others.
Will the magic of the wizarding world of Harry Potter attract a number of people to Osaka?
ユニバーサルスタジオジャパン（ＵＳＪ）が「ハリー・ポッター」をテーマにした新エリア"The Wizarding World of Harry Potter"を建設し、２０１４年後半に開業すると発表した。
３Ｄ映像のアトラクションを設置しホグワーツ城や街並みを再現するなど、投資総額は約４５０億円。
"The Wizarding World of Harry Potter"は、２０１０年６月に米国フロリダ州オーランドの "Universal Parks and Resorts' Islands of Adventure theme park" にオープンし、現在ハリウッドにも建設中。米国以外ではＵＳＪが初めてとなる。
A new promotional video introduces Mayu Kawamoto (川本まゆ), the recently revealed "image girl" for the Japanese release of Grasshopper's Lollipop Chainsaw (ロリポップチェーンソー)game.
PV for Lollipop Chainsaw
Lollipop Chainsaw is an action video game being developed by Grasshopper Manufacture. It features Juliet Starling, a cheerleader fighting zombies in a fictional California high school.
Lollipop Chainsaw
Lollipop Chainsaw is slated for a June 12 release in North America on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles.
Mayu Kawamoto
has an actual black belt in kyokushin karate (極真空手）.
The game will ship in Japan on June 14, followed by a release in Europe on June 15.
UNIQLO released the UNIQLO Wake Up smartphone app with background music composed by musicians Yoko Kanno (菅野よう子）and Cornelius (小山田圭吾).
This free app is available for both iOS and Android devices
The app features an alarm with music that changes depending on the weather. UNIQLO Wake Up also displays the current weather conditions and temperature, and the background changes according to the day of the week.
Yoko Kanno
Kanno is known for composing music for anime such as Macross Plus, Escaflowne, Cowboy Bebop, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. She recently composed a song to mark the one-year anniversary of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake (Higashi Nihon Daishinsai) disaster.
Cornelius
Cornelius has contributed music for UNIQLO television commercials in the past and also created music for Appleseed: Ex Machina anime film in 2007.
The app is available in English, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Thai, but the vocals are only available in English and Mandarin Chinese.
"Hotaru" is the Japanese word for firefly. Hotaru has been a metaphor for passionate love, and its eerie light is also thought to be the altered form of the soul of soldier who has died in war.
Hotaru
The Sumida River, which runs through Tokyo's east end, was one of the life sources of the community.The event "Tokyo Hotaru Festival" trid to draw attention to an effort by locals to beautify the river and its precincts.
On May 6, the event took place, in which around 100,000 LED lights that store solar electricity – called “Inoriboshi” (“Prayer Stars”), were released into the Sumida River.
The sight of faint lights on the surface of the river surely make you want to make Tokyo into a beautiful city that is renowned throughout the entire world.
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