Women's magazine anan revealed the results of its annual survey of its readers' favorite male celebrities. Once again, Takuya Kimura topped the list. The rankings have been around since 1988, but Kimura has been voted #1 every year since 1994.

Kimura wasn't the only Johnny's idol to make the list. 18 of the top 30 names belonged to the popular talent agency, with eight of them ranking in the top 10.

Shinya Arino of comedy duo Yoiko announced on his official blog that his second child was born on Sunday night. The girl was not expected to be born until September 26, but she weighed in at a healthy 3100 grams.

Arino's first daughter was born in March of last year.

Author Novala Takemoto, best known for writing the novel "Shimotsuma Monogatari" that was adapted as the movie "Kamikaze Girls," has been arrested for possession of cannabis.

Takemoto was stopped by a police officer on Sunday evening while he walking alone in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district. The officer took him in for questioning after discovering the cannabis. During questioning, Takemoto reportedly admitted to using the drug.

Former Fuji TV announcer Maki Ohashi announced on her official blog that she is currently six months pregnant with her first child.

Ohashi left Fuji TV in 2001, and the next year she married an employee of advertising firm Dentsu. She currently works as a free announcer and as an aromatherapist.

Filming for the live-action "Grave of the Fireflies" movie started on Monday, and is scheduled to continue until the end of the month. It is being shot entirely in the Hyogo Prefecture, where the original novel takes place.

15-year-old Reo Yoshitake and 5-year-old Rina Hatakeyama play the main characters, a brother and sister struggling to survive alone near the end of World War II, after their father (Katsuaki Takahashi) leaves to serve the navy and their mother (Seiko Matsuda) dies in a firebombing.

The movie opens next summer.

Actor Mocomichi Hayami has joined the main cast of NTV's "Hataraki Man" drama series, adapted from Moyoco Anno's manga of the same name.

The series stars Miho Kanno as magazine editor Hiroko Matsukata, who prioritizes work over everything else. Hayami plays the conceited rookie editor Kunio Tanaka. Unlike Hiroko, he places his personal life ahead of work, causing the two editors to constantly clash.

NTV will begin airing the show on October 10.

23-year-old model Mai Shinohara, who is this year's Asahi Beer Image Girl, will make her acting debut this fall.

Shinohara has been given the lead female role in TV Tokyo's drama adaptation of the "Shigeshoshi" manga by Mitsukazu Mihara. She plays a rookie nurse who becomes attracted to the main character, an embalmer played by Masato Wada.

This weekend, Yokohama hosted Nippon 2007, a combination of the 65th World Science Fiction Convention and the 46th Nihon SF Taikai. On Sunday, the winners were revealed for the Seiun Awards, Japan's highest honor for science fiction writers.

Sakyo Komatsu and Koshu Tani won the Long Fiction award for "Japan Sinks, Part 2," while Hosuke Nojiri won in Short Fiction with "Oburoshiki to Kumo no Ito."

The other winners were:

• Foreign Long Fiction: "Mortal Engines" by Phillip Reeve
• Foreign Short Fiction: "The Astronaut from Wyoming" by Adam-Troy Castro and Jerry Oltion
• Media: "Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo"
• Comics: "Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko" by Hitoshi Ashinano
• Art: Yoshitaka Amano
• Nonfiction: "Uchuu e no Passport 3" by Yuichi Sasamoto
• Freedom Award: The M-V rocket
• Special Award: Yoshihiro Yonezawa

Rock band JUN SKY WALKER(S) is reuniting, it was revealed on Sunday. The group formed in 1980, made their major label debut in 1988, and broke up in 1997. They temporarily got back together twice for concerts, but this time is said to be more permanent.

Starting on November 25, they have four shows scheduled at Kobe Wynterland. Then they will kick things in full gear for 2008 (the 20th anniversary of their debut) with a planned nationwide tour.