Actor Koyo Maeda and comedian Tomoko Urabara, who married last August, had their first child on Thursday morning. The healthy girl was named Kasei, using the characters for "song" and "star."

Yoshiki (of X Japan), in collaboration with event production company 4 Fini, has organized an event called Jrock Revolution. The "festival" will last two days (May 25-26) at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, and will feature nine Japanese bands.

The lineup consists of: alice nine., Vidoll, DuelJewel, Kagrra, Miyavi, DespairsRay, Merry, girugamesh, and MUCC.

It is also rumored that Yoshiki will announce the fourth member of his new band (with Gackt and SUGIZO) at the event.

The full announcement can be read at the JRock Revolution MySpace page. More information will be made available on the official festival website. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale on April 21 at 10:00am through Ticketmaster and Music Today.

Actor/singer Manabu Oshio is living up to his playboy reputation yet again. He and actress Akiko Yada got married last November, but weekly tabloid FRIDAY reports that Oshio is already cheating on her. Earlier this month, he was seen entering the apartment of a 25-year-old office worker. The lights were reportedly turned off after he had gone inside.

Oshio's agency stated that the women is just a friend, and denied the claim that he is having an affair.

Singer mao is set to make her major label debut with "Yume wo Kanaete Doraemon," which will be used as the new opening song for the popular anime series "Doraemon." The song makes its first appearance on the show on May 11, and the single goes on sale on June 20.

Singer Hitomi Shimatani has been chosen to star in a production of the "Anne of Green Gables" musical. Her last appearance in a musical was in the 2004 "Star Tanjou" ("A Star Is Born").

Also appearing in the musical are Jun Anna, Shinji Rachi, and Yuka Kono. 11 performances in 8 cities are scheduled, starting on August 18.

Shigeru Nakano, the vocalist of punk band Anarchy, got married on Thursday. The reception was held in the live house Shibuya DUO.

Nakano's wife Natsumi, who is 13 years younger than him, is an employee of a dry goods store in the Yamanashi prefecture. They first met in December 2005 at the wedding party of a mutual friend. Last summer, Nakano bought a house in Yamanashi and they began living together.

Singer Yoko Togawa, who released her debut single "Together" on February 14, helped organize a charity karaoke marathon. The goal was to break the previous world record of 142 hours, held by a team in Australia.

The event took place at a karaoke bar in Shinjuku. It started on March 30 and ended on April 11, lasting the fully scheduled twelve days, though a brief problem with the karaoke machine threatened to ruin their attempt for the record. Several hundred people participated in the 214-hour session, singing a total of 3,630 songs.

For each song, a vaccine was sent to a child in a developing country.

Oricon conducted an online survey of 1,000 people asking them who they felt would be the most prominent 18-year-old celebrity this year. Choices were limited only to celebrities who were 18 on April 1.

The number one choice was actress Yui Aragaki. She started off as a model in fashion magazine nicola, then moved on to become a gravure idol and actress. Her popularity has been increasing through multiple commercial and drama roles, and this summer she makes her big screen debut.

Second on the list was Rakuten Eagles pitcher Masahiro Tanaka. Tanaka was the ace of high school Komadai Tomakomai, which failed to defend its title at last August's Koshien tournament. He lost to Waseda Jitsugyo's Yuki Saito (admired by women across the nation as the "Handkerchief Prince"), but he at least ranked two places ahead of him in Oricon's survey.

Actress Erika Toda was ranked third, while actress Maki Horikita came in fifth. The rest of the top ten included table tennis star Ai Fukuhara, boxer Daiki Kameda, J Leaguer Takayuki Morimoto, singer Miliyah Kato, and Chunichi Dragons infielder Naomichi Donoue.

Several more bands have been announced for this year's Fuji Rock Festival:

Boredoms, The Chemical Brothers, DJ Chernobyl, Damien Rice, Feist, Fuji Fabric, Gov't Mule, hellogoodbye, Hot Club of Cowtown, Larrikin Love, Lily Allen, MONORAL, Mumm-Ra, Ocean Colour Scene, Peter Bjorn and John, Sandi Thom