myosotis comments

This 'you must produce a male heir' pressure harks back to the time of Henry VIII in the 1500's. At least you aren't allowed to behead your wife for not having a boy these days.

He works in Namja Town in Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, I think, or it's the same company.

Just another pair of dismal, talentless posers, the kind that the Japanese public like, and that advertisers think will sell the product. Clowns.

Isn't he a 'Major League baseball star'? I am not a fan of baseball, but this must mean he has some talent?

Old people love a bargain.

Fashion insiders think the ideal for young girls will be the “bitchy” type, not the cutesy woman that guys expect.

Is "bitchy" another way of saying assertive? As opposed to the "cutsey", giggley, I need to have a boyfriend by Christmas type, that guys expect now.

Maybe this fixation with illuminations has something to do with Japan coming second in the the list of countries apparently not doing enough to combat gobal warming!