Japantoday.com reported, “The Japan Jeans Association on Monday announced this year’s Best Jeanists, selecting singer Kumi Koda, 25, KAT-TUN member Kazuya Kamenashi, 22, and three other winners. Beijing Olympic fencing silver medalist Yuki Ota, 22, also won a Best Jeanist award in the association’s special section. Koda (for best overalls) and Kamenashi won the award for the third successive year.”

“Asked about his selection, Ota said, “Up until now, I never thought the award had anything to do with my life. I feel like it’s not right for me to be here today. Although I usually wear a sweatsuit, I will try jeans more often.” Kamenashi said of Ota: “I would like him to teach me fencing and we can talk about jeans together.” Koda added that she would like to coordinate clothes for Ota.”

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Here is the new music video featuring Koda Kumi and FERGIE titled “That Ain’t Cool”. Although it features FERGIE, interesting thing is the vocals are mostly FERGIE.

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JapanToday.com reported, “Kirin Brewery Corp has canceled its contract with singer Kumi Koda, 25, for its TV ad for the alcoholic drink “Hyoketsu,” and will instead use actress Kyoko Fukada, 25.”

“A Kirin spokesman said: “The contract with her was originally valid until this spring, and we have decided not to renew it.” Kirin has already suspended its earlier TV ads featuring Koda ever since she told a radio program on Jan 30 that “women over 35 had ‘rotten’ fluid in their wombs.”

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Japantoday.com reported, “P&G said on its official website that it has started to use singer Kumi Koda, 25, for TV ads of its shavers for women again. Koda, who had suspended her activities since she told a radio program on Jan 30 that “women over 35 had ‘rotten’ fluid in their wombs,” started a nationwide tour in April 12.”

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JapanToday.com reported, “Singer Kumi Koda, 25, returned from a self-imposed exile at a concert in Shizuoka on Saturday. It was her first public performance since she told a radio program on Jan 30 that “women over 35 had ‘rotten’ fluid in their wombs.“

“After Koda made the offending remarks, her agency, Avex Entertainment, announced a halt to promotional activities for her latest album, “Kingdom,” which was released at the end of January. Kose Corp, Japan’s third-ranked cosmetics maker, halted online advertisements for its Visee brand, one of its major lineups, which features the pop star.”

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Mainichi Daily News reported, “Female singer Kumi Koda’s apology over her bizarre comment about “rotten” fluid in the uteruses of 30-something women snared attention in the Mainichi’s Japanese-language entertainment news during the week between Feb. 2 and 8, along with news on prizewinning and birthday celebrities.”"On Thursday, 25-year-old Koda appeared in a Fuji TV news program and made a tearful apology, saying, “I think the way I spoke was really not good … I’m sorry.” The apology followed an earlier, unusual comment that a woman’s amniotic fluid — the intrauterine liquid in which a fetus lives until birth - goes “rotten” once she hits 35 years of age.”

“Koda appeared wearing a black suit, with a haggard expression on her face. Fuji TV officials said the interview with Koda was conducted the previous day at the company over a period of one hour.”

“Singer Ami Suzuki, who belongs to the same record company as Koda, also featured in the entertainment news as she held a countdown on Friday evening to mark her 26th birthday on Saturday.”

“Speaking on her goals after turning 26, she said, “I want to transform myself into a beautiful woman and go on a good date. My type is someone like (veteran comedian) Ken Shimura. If he proposed to me I can’t say how things might turn out.”

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Mainichi Daily News reported, “Popular singer Kumi Koda has apologized for a controversial remark she made in which she said that a woman’s amnion fluid rots once she hits 35 years of age.”"Those were careless remarks. I want to apologize to those who were hurt by my words,” Koda said in tears during a news program broadcast by Fuji Television Network on Thursday.”

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Koda Kumi (25) will be facing several repercussions from her comment made on a radio show on Sunday.

During the radio program “All Night Nippon”, Koda jokingly talked about her manager and how he and his wife should have a baby now because at 35, the women’s amniotic fluid in their wombs becomes rotten.

Women furious about the comments started to have online campaigns for people to put pressure on advertisers that have featured Koda Kumi and it seems to have worked.

Koda’s Visee commercial was pulled by Kose and today her Kirin “Chu-Hi” commercial was discontinued.

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It’s new releases Wednesday!  Which artist or band came in #1 on the Oricon Album Daily Chart?

NOTE: Koda Kumi may not have a good single debut with “anytime” but her album “Kingdom” did very well at #1.  CHEMISTRY at #2, Kobukuro staying in the top 10 with “5296″ and ZARD drops from #1 to #4.

1. Koda Kumi - Kingdom
2. CHEMISTRY - Face to Face
3. Kobukuro - 5296
4. ZARD - ZARD Request Best ~Beautiful memory~
5. Elephant Kashimashi - STARTING OVER
6. Syrup 16g - Syrup 16g
7. Horie Yui - Darling
8. RAG FAIR - Colors
9. Bank Band - Soushi Souai 2
10. Nightmare - Nightmare 2003-2005 Single Collection

Our CM Pick of the Day goes to the new Koda Kumi CM for KOSE VISEE “Under” currently airing in Japan.

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