Actress Yun Eun Hye ( Yoon Eun Hye ) will hold her first fan meeting in Japan next month.

The title of the fan meeting, to be held at the Sun Plaza Hall in Tokyo on September 19, is “Birthday.”

Yoon Eun Hye plans to thank her Japanese fans who visited Korea every year to celebrate her birthday with her.

The former singer, who made her acting debut through the popular drama series “Gung,” or “Palace,” stole the hearts of her Japanese fans once again through her role in “‘Coffee Prince.”

During the upcoming two-hour fan meeting, Yun Eun Hye plans to show her fans a never-before-revealed video, host a talk show and personally shake hands with around 2,000 fans.

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“Hwang Jin Yi,” a history drama series on KBS 2TV starring Ha Ji Won, will be broadcast in Japan on NHK’s landwave channel.

Wellmade Star M said on August 5 that Hwang Jin Yi will air every Saturday at 11:10 p.m. beginning October 11.

The drama series was first aired on NHK’s satellite channel BS2 from April and posted the number one viewer rating out of all the programs aired during the same time slot.

An NHK official said it was rare for a show to be moved from a satellite channel to a landwave channel.

Meanwhile, Ha Ji Won has become hugely popular in Japan thanks to her two other popular drama series “Damo” and “What Happened in Bali.” She held her first fan meeting in Japan in May.

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Teen actress Omasa Aya will be taking on her first starring movie role later this year.

She will appear in Ryuichi Hiroki’s “NEW TYPE: Tada, Ai no Tame ni,” based on a drama she starred in a few months ago.

Omasa Aya has primarily appeared in various BS-i dramas, though she has started getting more exposure on major networks this year with roles in “81diver” and “Taiyou to Umi no Kyoushitsu.”

Her upcoming movie is based on an episode of BS-i’s “Koisuru Nichiyoubi NEW TYPE” in which she played a young girl with psychic powers.

“NEW TYPE” opens in theaters this November.

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The show will star Ninomiya Kazunari, Nishikido Ryo, and Toda Erika, with Kudo Kankuro penning the script.

Ninomiya Kazunari, Nishikido Ryo, and Toda Erika play three siblings whose parents were murdered when they were children.

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28-year-old gravure idol Aoyama Sayuri announced on her blog that she got engaged on July 15.

Although she did not reveal details about her fiancee.

Aoyama Sayuri also mentioned that she is four months pregnant, but she plans to continue working after the child is born.

In addition to her gravure work, Aoyama Sayuri has been active as an actress, appearing mostly in theater.

She is also currently enrolled in the literature department of Keio University and serves as the executive director of talent agency Queen’s Factory under her real name, Uetsuhara Sawako.

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23-year-old idol Okubo Mariko has “graduated” from the gravure world.

According to Okubo Mariko, her latest DVD and photobook are her last, as she has decided to focus on building a career as an actress.

This past January, Okubo Mariko took the first steps in starting anew when she moved to a different management agency.

Okubo Mariko also changed the way her first name is written.

People will be seeing Okubo Mariko more in drama rather than DVD from now on.

Wonder what drama will Okubo Mariko play as her first appearance (debut).

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Teen actress Tabe Mikako has been named as the heroine in NHK’s next morning drama series.

“Tsubasa,” first announced in April, will be the network’s 80th Asadora, and its first set in Saitama.

At the age of 19, Tabe Mikako is the first Asadora heroine to be born in the Heisei era (1989-present).

She was chosen by audition from a pool of almost 1,600 applicants to play Tsubasa, the daughter of a sweets shop who becomes a host on a community radio station.

Filming will start in mid-October. “Tsubasa” is scheduled to run next year from March 30 to September 26.

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Pop star Hamasaki Ayumi will be releasing a 3-disc collection called “A COMPLETE ~ALL SINGLES~” on September 10.

It will contain all of Hamasaki Ayumi’s 43 singles, from the 1998 “poker face” to this year’s “Mirrorcle World,” plus the bonus track “Who…”

In her 10 years as a singer, Hamasaki Ayumi has had 41 of her singles enter the top 10, and 30 of them have reached #1.

Five have gone on to become million-sellers. In all, her singles have sold more than 20 million copies.

“A COMPLETE” will retail for only 3,800 yen, with the DVD-bonus version going for 4,800 yen.

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Filming has just started for Ayase Haruka’s next film, a youth sports comedy titled “Oppai Bare” (”Breasts Volleyball”).

Ayase Haruka stars as a well-endowed middle school teacher and adviser to the school’s pathetic male volleyball team.

The film’s title refers to her means of motivating the young boys: she promises to show them her breasts if they win in the big tournament.

Ayase Haruka’s bust actually launched her career in 2001, when she entered the entertainment world as a gravure idol.

Since then, however, she has been active mainly as an actress.

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It was learned on Thursday that idol Leah Dizon will be releasing a new album, which will be followed by her first Japan tour.

The album, titled “Communication!!!,” goes on sale August 20. Out of the 12 songs included, Leah Dizon wrote the lyrics for 10 of them, and she even did composition for two rock numbers called “Lost at Sea” and “BxKxRxxx.”

Those two songs will also feature her playing guitar - she is said to have first learned the instrument as a child, and she started practicing it again last summer.

Leah Dizon was reported to be practicing with Marty Friedman, former Megadeth heavy metal guitarist.

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