The Public Prosecutor's Office in Tokyo has formally indicted former EE JUMP member Yuki Goto on charges of theft. According to the prosecution, he and three other young men entered a construction site on July 15 and stole 48 reels of copper cable worth approximately 470,000 yen.

Goto has already admitted his involvement, saying that they were planning to sell the cable because they wanted money.

In a follow-up to this survey regarding men in suits, Oricon posted the results of a similar survey asking which female celebrities look best in a suit.

Ryoko Shinohara topped the list, based on her professional image from drama series such as "Haken no Hinkaku." The complete top ten included Yuki Amami, Misaki Ito, Makiko Esumi, Hitomi Kuroki, Nanako Matsushima, Norika Fujiwara, Aya Ueto, Ryoko Yonekura, and Miki Maya.

A related question on the survey asked women who they imitated or wanted to imitate for their work attire. The top three were Ryoko Shinohara, Yuri Ebihara, and Misaki Ito.

NHK is expected to soon announce the hosts of its year-end Kohaku Uta Gassen, though rumor has it that Masami Nagasawa will be in charge of the Red Team while the entire group SMAP handles the White Team. In the meantime, Oricon turned to public opinion to see who viewers are hoping for. Research discovered that the most popular choices are last year's hosts, Yukie Nakama and SMAP leader Masahiro Nakai.

In the women's category, Nagasawa ranked second behind Nakama. Other popular choices, in order, were: Masami Hisamoto, Erika Sawajiri, Norika Fujiwara, Junko Kubo, Akiko Wada, Yui Aragaki (tied with Wada for #7), Aoi Miyazaki, and Ryoko Shinohara.

On the men's side, Tamori ranked second, followed by Minomonta and Sanma Akashiya. Koichi Domoto, Yoshio Kojima, and Shingo Katori tied for 5th, while Takuya Kimura and Shinsuke Shimada tied for 8th. Yo Oizumi rounded out the list at #10.

35-year-old gymnast-turned-talento Hikaru Tanaka is set to marry 24-year-old Yoshimi Miyata, a competitive aerobics athlete.

Tanaka has won medals in international competition, and in 1996, he competed at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He retired in 1997 but returned the following year, only to retire again a year later after an injury. He is currently active in show business as a member of Yoshimoto Kogyo.

Miyata won a national competition in 2002, becoming the event's youngest women's singles winner at the age of 19. She placed third in an international competition the following year.

The two met three years ago when they appeared on TV Tokyo's "Oha Suta." They decided to form a competitive aerobics pair, becoming semifinalists in the national championships in 2004 and ranking 7th in the world championships (the Suzuki World Cup) in 2005.

According to Yoshimoto Kogyo, the two are holding their wedding ceremony and reception in Tokyo on November 11.

On Thursday afternoon, jazz vocalist Miyuki Ishino died of peritoneal cancer at a Kobe hospital. She was 35.

Ishino was diagnosed with stomach cancer last September. She continued with her music, however, performing a dinner show in September and her last concert this past July. She had another show scheduled last month, but it was canceled.

Heart Line Project held its 4th annual Mannenhitsu Best Coordinate Awards on Thursday. The promotional prize is given to celebrities who look good with a fountain pen.

This year's winners were actress Manami Honjo, actor Kenichi Matsuyama, alpinist Ken Noguchi, and professor of art anthropology Shinichi Nakazawa. Presenting the awards were three of last year's winners: comedian Hikari Ota, Diet member Yuriko Koike, and author/illustrator Lily Franky.

NHK held its monthly president's report on Thursday. One of the announcements made was that the popular children's song "Oshiri Kajiri Mushi" is getting its own "show." Titled "Oshiri Kajiri Mushi to Odorou!," the one-minute program will feature the "butt-biting bug" dancing with children at kindergartens and nursery schools across the country.

The show will be broadcast in the afternoon from November 12 to November 18, but the network plans to have it airing daily by the end of the year.

NHK also announced that SMAP's Goro Inagaki will host a special program on the 14th dealing with the moon and the Kaguya lunar probe.

TBS is currently working on a drama special dealing with the troubles felt by residents in the bankrupt city of Yubari, Hokkaido.

Tentatively titled "Ofukuro-sensei no Yubari Shinryo Nikki," the story takes place between last summer, when the city officially went bankrupt, and January of this year. Pinko Izumi stars as a doctor assigned to the city.

Filming is already under way. The drama is scheduled to air sometime in the spring.

After 19 years in show business, talento Wakako Shimazaki has landed her first lead role in a drama series. She will appear in the TBS daytime drama "Sandaime no Yome!" in which she plays a woman married to a senbei maker 7 years younger than her. The story focuses on her conflicts with her mother-in-law.

The series premieres on January 7, airing weekdays at 1:00pm.