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In Japan, drink alcoholic beverages (especially sake) have special rules.
The minimum age limit for someone is allowed to have alcoholic beverages is 20 years old.

When gathering together, Japanese people prefer serve and filled up their friend`s glasses than filled up their own glass.
Otherwise, people they served will do the same thing.

Before drink sake or other alcoholic beverages, Japanese people always toast and raised their own glass and saying, "kanpai"!most-empty-glass should be filled up again with sake.

In Japan, left glass filled up is not something that can be considered as a waste.

The empty glass show that the owner of the glass still wanted to drink. Therefore, the al
Because, it indicates if someone dont want additional drinks anymore.
Therefore, someone who dont want to have drink again, should left their glass filled up.

Get drunk in a few store or restaurant like izakaya is allowed as long as not interfere other guests.

Akiko Shikata (志方あきこ) is a Japanese composer and singer-songwriter born in Tokyo, Japan.

She is most well known for her contributions to the Ar tonelico and Shadow Hearts video games series. She also sings opening song for the sound novel series, Umineko no naku koro ni, and its become anime adaptation.

She sings fantasy music inspired by medieval, celtic, renaissance and ethnic music.

As a singer she has ability to sing in multiple language, such as Japanese, Italian and Hymmnos (the made-up language of Ar tonelico).
She can also sung some other uncommon languages, such as Uyghur, Turkish, Ainu and Tibetan.

Besides her voice is very beautiful and amazing, she is pretty too ^w^
I like her so much.
This is her songs;

*Umineko no naku koro ni
*Ar tonelico series

Hanayori Dango is one of the japanese dorama that is similar to taiwan dorama named Meteor Garden which is booming and very popular in 2001.

Hanayori Dango is an original work of Yoko Kamio which is released first in manga on 1992. Then, this manga is adapted too to anime in 1996, and one year later the version of the movie is made too.

Although the core of the story is similar to Meteor Garden, but this japanese dorama has its own story, even more complex than its manga version.

2 theme song for this dorama is performed by Arashi and Ai Otsuka:


Makino Tsukushi (Inoue Mao) is a girl from a poor family. Her family savings money to send her to school at Eito Gakuen, an elite school which is all the student is rich. And make her the only poor student at that school.

That school is ruled by F4 or Flower 4, a group consist of four boys, who are very handsome and come from rich family.
The members of F4 is;
Domyouji Tsukasa (Jun Matsumoto), the leader and heir of the Domyoji world finance group,
Hanazawa Rui (Shun Oguri), an introverted boy whose father own a big scale company,
Nishikado Soujirou (Matsuda Shouta), a playboy whose family have tea business, and
Mimasaka Akira (Tsuyoshi Abe), a playboy who like a girl who is older than him.

No one in that school have enough guts to make them upset. Because F4 will not hesitate to released red note which make the person receive it will be bullied, degraded even be expelled from that school.

And, Tsukushi receive red note because she defend her only friend in that school who accidentally spilled her drink to Domyojis clothes.

She received many mean things from F4. She even almost be raped by 3 men that Domyouji have if Hanazawa didn`t help her. Hanazawa`s kindness make she likes him and she decide not to give up to F4.

Even though she is harassed badly, Makino decides to keep going to school because she is a tough weed, even she declares war againts f4 that makes Domyouji realized that he is falling in love with her.

An odd love story when Tsukushi want to get attention from her crush, Hanazawa meanwhile Domyouji is trying to attract her attention too.

Watch the continuation of this dorama streaming;
Hanayori Dango