Saila Kunikida, great-great-granddaughter of author and poet Doppo Kunikida, will make her debut as a model under the Bon Image modeling agency.

Doppo Kunikida was a Japanese author of novels and romantic poetry during the Meiji period, noted as one of the inventors of Japanese naturalism, a literary movement that used detail realism to suggest social conditions. He lived a relatively short life and died in 1908 at 36 years of age.

CRAZY KEN BAND x Sakamoto Fuyumi x SKE48 – Tiger & Dragon

Kato Miliyah – YOU… feat. Izumi Nakasone (HY)

SKE48 – Bukiyou Taiyou

Sakamoto Fuyumi – Otoko no Himatsuri

Hey! Say! JUMP – Weekender / Asu e no YELL

Porno Graffitti – Oretachi no Celebration

T.M.Revolution – Phantom Pain

Hello AramaJapan readers! We are back with our monthly wrap up feature. A few of the staff members have come together to share their faves for the month of August. Find out what the staff was loving this past month! Also feel free to post what you loved this past August in the comments!

The semiannual fashion festival Tokyo Girls Collection 2014 Autum/Winter was held earlier today. The event is open to the buyers, journalists and the general public alike and features appearances and live concerts by well-known artists, charity auctions as well as the Miss TGC Contest. The cast of ‘Suikyu Yankees‘ (Water Polo Yankees), a current Fuji TV that began airing back in July, were one of the many attendees.

Cast members Kento Yamazaki, Yudai Chiba, Shotaro Mamiya, Taishi Nakagawa, Ryo Yoshizawa, Yuma Yamoto as well as Mikako Kakei and Aya Oomasa entered the stage. The guys first entered the stage wearing regular clothes, but shortly after changed into their water polo Speedo garb with a huge reaction from the crowd of 30,000 people.

The guy’s feelings about wearing such skimpy outfits on stage were mixed, from embarrassed to confident.

Up-and-coming Japanese rock band Gesu no Kiwami Otome. have announced that they’ll be releasing their first full length studio album in October of this year.  The album will be titled ‘Miryoku ga Sugoi yo’ and was suddenly announced on the band’s official Twitter account last night in Japan.

Since being signed to major label Warner Music Japan earlier this year, Gesu no Kiwami Otome. have previously released a mini-album titled ‘Minna Normal’ and a single titled ‘Ryoukiteki na Kiss wo Watashi ni Shite / Asobi’.

More information about the album, including a track list, cover, and the actual release date will be revealed at a later date.

(via Rockin’on Japan)

The final line up of artists to perform for TV Asahi’s Dream Festival 2014 has been announced. The festival runs from October 11-13 and will be held at the Yoyogi National Stadium.

Check out the list of artists below.

Instrumental rock band MONO will be releasing a new album pair “The Last Dawn” and “Rays of Darkness” on October 28th.

Although recorded at the same time, the two albums are completely different from each other acting as opposing sides to a story. The albums are the typical thematic fare for MONO: hope and hopelessness and joy and pain. It contains undoubtedly some of MONO’s strongest songs ever, drawing on an array of influences from minimalist film score to vintage shoegaze.