ils sont pas chou nos petits cavaliers!? With Maria H. Last night, at the wedding reception of the 2 actors Miwon and Masanobu Takashima. Miwon was the 1st runner-up at Miss Universe Japan 2000 (Mayu Endo won). I met again with many past finalists from the year of 2000 whom I had not seen for many years, also I was happy to see them again like Chisato, Misato and Naomi. Miwon was gorgeous and changed her gown 3 times the time I was there. The celebration happened at the Imperial Hotel. Maria is wearing a Fendi outfit and my dress is by Loewe. Little behind-the-scenes note; You should see the collection of evening dresses and outfits that I collected since the past 11 years. It looks like an episode in the movie The Devil Wears Prada, when the creative director takes Anne Hathaway into a huge room filled with exclusive-treasures from past collections have been stored and he chooses a look for her to attend an event on that night. Our office is like that, we have lots of racks with names of celebrity-designers or of famous brands. Everything is well organized, photographed, archives, numbered…… and the point for all of this is to auction the dresses, in the future, for charity when they will have become real vintage items.

Last night, Hiroko was invited to the Radio Show TOKYO FM “Wonderful World” as a guest. First she looked nervous, but got used to the atmosphere after a while. It was her first Radio Show, and she really enjoyed it. Please have a look at Hiroko’s blog ↓ She has put many pictures!

http://mimahiroko.com/wordpress/index.php

Une femme de 61 ans, servant de mère porteuse, a donné naissance à l’enfant de sa fille dans le centre du Japon, a annoncé mercredi le gynécologue qui a pratiqué l’accouchement.

Un badge de maternité (pour que les femmes enceintes puissent trouver des places dans les transports en commun)

La femme a porté l’enfant conçu à partir des ovules de sa fille, dépourvue d’utérus, et du sperme de son beau-fils, précise le communiqué.

La gestation pour autrui n’est pas considérée comme un crime au Japon mais est interdite par l’Ordre des obstétriciens et gynécologues japonais.

“Elle est vraisemblablement la plus vieille mère porteuse jamais enregistrée au Japon”, a déclaré dans un communiqué le gynécologue, Yahiro Netsu.

“Nous ne recommandons pas les grossesses tardives. Mais nous pratiquons les accouchements de mères porteuses qui sont les mères des mères biologiques, afin de prendre en compte l’absence dans la société japonaise de structures de soutien pour la gestation pour autrui”, ajoute le communiqué.

Le Dr Netsu a déjà assisté plusieurs mères porteuses, toutes ayant des liens de parenté avec la mère biologique.

 

 I am passing this on to you because it is definitely working for me… ! By following the simple advice I read in an article I have finally found Inner Peace… The article read:  ”The way to achieve Inner Peace is to finish all the things you’ve started.” So I looked around the house to see all the things I started and hadn’t  finished, and before leaving the house this morning I finished off a bottle of red wine, a bottle of white, the Bailey’s, the Kahlua, the Wild Turkey,  the Prozac, some Valium, some cheesecake and a box of chocolates. You have no idea how  good I feel right now! Big love to you all, I am back at the office, with tons of letters on my desk, zillion emails, but so happy to see my fabulous team again. Photo: With my sweetheart friend Tina Bhatia, during her wedding ceremony, in New Delhi.

RIYO AND HIROKO, ON THE RED CARPET AT THE MOVIE PREMIER, ON MONDAY FIRST AT ROPPONGI HILLS CLICK HERE TO SEE THE TRAILER:   WANTED STARRING MORGAN FREEMAN AND ANGELINA JOLIE

  September issue On-sale now in all bookstores in Japan.  Many more pictures inside the magazine, and also Kurara’s private diary. Go buy it now!! Previous issues with our diva-Kurara:

FROM LEFT: Dan Fuji, Ricco Deblank: Ritz Carlton’s GM together with Riyo and Hiroko. Also, Yokozuna Akebono and John Parker: Amway’s President. NEWS UPDATE:  I am now in Beijing since last night. Going to the second game today, in about an hour, to see the gold medal championships of Baseball, Japan is playing! Ran into Japan charismatic coach Bobby Valentine at the game this morning. Tomorrow will attend both basket ball and boxing….. so many tourists here for the games, it is truly electrifying to be here.  I had to check my emails as it is Friday today, in japan and I deceided to give some news… I shot CNN yesterday right after landing from Paris… ouch!     CNN has been following Riyo for 3 full days for a well know program called ”My city, My life. As a mini protion into Riyo’s program, CNN asked to film us together in her suite at the Ritz while talking and then we went shopping at Tokyo Midtown. I love been with Riyo, she is so much fun always. This program will be broadcasted worldwide on CNN International and opf course CNNJ. Top-stars such as Bono and Beyonce have done the same shoot in the past. Check it out, and you will get to know Riyo’s private lifestyle in Japan. Love from Great China, the Olympics. One World, One dream!

You should check this blog….. to find out about some behind the scenes of Miss Universe pageant. http://stujay.blogspot.com/

- Guest for Shikoku TV for the Awaodori (Tokushima Summer Festival Dance) - Attend Tokushima Indigo Socks Baseball Game first pitch (shikoku TV, NHK Tokushima, Yomiuri Newspaper) - Shikoku TV Guest featuring Hiroko at Sekai Taikai (about 20min broadcast on the 27th August) - Visiting Tokushima Prefectural governor - Visiting Tokushima City governor

Posters and ad campaigns are all over Japan! Campaign models are: REI HAMADA 2007」 「AZUSA NISHIGAKI 2008」 「KANA ANAN 2008」 SAYO YAMAGUCHI 2008」 YUKARI HONNA 2008」！！