Comedy duo Pakkun Makkun will debut as singers next month with a children's song titled "Sankaku Shikaku Maru Kobicchi" (△□○コビッチ). It will appear on NHK's "Minna no Uta" during February and March.

The single goes on sale February 20. It will come with an English version of the song, translated by the American-born Pakkun (whose real name is Patrick Harlan).

With Coming of Age Day taking place on Monday, 20-year-old actress Anne Suzuki declared that she hopes to learn English and French by the time she is 30, and is aiming to study abroad.

True to her words, she is traveling to New York later this month and doing language studies there until mid-May. During that time, she will be taking a break from work.

Suzuki is currently a student at Wako University in Tokyo.

EXILE member MAKIDAI and fashion model Jun Hasegawa are no longer dating, it was discovered on Sunday. Their busy work schedules are reportedly the cause of their split. They stopped living together this past fall and finally decided to break up.

Their relationship was first reported in January 2005 when they took a trip together to Hasegawa's hometown in Hawaii. They had been introduced to each other the year before by fellow EXILE member HIRO and model/actress Mayumi Sada, who are currently in a relationship. At the time, Sada was a model for fashion magazine ViVi, along with Hasegawa.

Management for both celebrities could not comment on the matter.