37-year-old model-actress Ayako Kawahara appears to be in a serious relationship, says this week's issue of Shukan Josei. Her partner is a 48-year-old music producer referred to as N-shi ("Mr. N"), said to be divorced. They have reportedly been dating for two years now and are somewhat living together.

Kawahara's management agency commented that she currently has no plans for marriage.

TBS announcer Airi Yamada has become a mother at the age of 30. She gave birth to her first child, a boy, on Monday afternoon.

Yamada has been part of TBS since 2002 and was well known as a host on "Hanamaru Market." In 2004 she married a producer, and this past January she announced that she was expecting a baby. She has been on maternity leave since April. It is not known yet when she will return to work.

Popular actor Shun Oguri will get even more attention next month, when satellite channel Sky PerfecTV! runs a month-long "festival" featuring 25 of his works. The channel plans to broadcast not only movies, such as his recent "Crows ZERO," but also television dramas from as far back as 1999.

Oguri remarked that viewers will have a chance to see his progress over nearly a 10-year-span.

Singer Chiharu Matsuyama, 52, had to undergo emergency hospitalization on Wednesday morning. He was in the middle of a national tour that started last month, and the remaining 7 shows have now been canceled.

Matsuyama was scheduled to perform in the Mie prefecture on Friday. After attending an event on Tuesday in Fukuoka, he traveled to Mie late at night to prepare for the concert. Not long after he arrived, he collapsed in pain and was rushed to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with unstable angina. Doctors successfully performed an emergency angioplasty, but Matsuyama has to cut his tour short in order to properly recover.

The tour was scheduled to end on July 11 in Hokkaido.

A recent article on Barks covered HALCALI's recent performances in Paris on June 20-21, reporting that they played in front of two full houses, and that fans had lined up since about 5 o'clock in the morning to get seats. With about 600 people trying to get into the 300-person venue, video monitors were set up to accommodate more of the crowd. There was also a long line after the show as many of the fans purchased the duo's CDs.

According to the article, HALCALI is working on their next album, which is planned to go on sale by the end of the year in Japan, the U.S., and Europe. After the album's release, the group is said to be working on putting together an overseas tour.

Kensaku Watanabe's movie "Fure Fure Shojo" will have its theme song provided by the hit band Aqua Timez. The song is a ballad titled "Natsu no Kakera."

"Fure Fure Shojo" was announced back in March, with Yui Aragaki starring as a high schooler who takes on the burden of leading an ouendan to cheer on the boy she loves.

The single is set to go on sale on October 1 and the movie will open later that month, but a ringtone for the song is already available. Trailers for the film begin running in theaters this weekend.

Hip-hop group HOME MADE Kazoku is releasing a new single on July 23 titled "NO RAIN NO RAINBOW." The song has been chosen as the theme music for the upcoming anime film "Naruto Shippuden: Kizuna."

The second in the "Naruto Shippuden" series, the movie opens on 252 screens nationwide on August 2nd.

HOME MADE Kazoku's single will be released with two B-sides, "Frontier" and "I Wish." The first-edition DVD includes a "Naruto" trailer and live footage of "NO RAIN NO RAINBOW" and "Manatsu No Dance Call."

According to the newest issue of Shogakukan's Ikki magazine, the sci-fi manga series "Dosei Mansion" by Hisae Iwaoka is getting a live-action movie adaptation.

Also known as "Saturn Apartments," the story is set in a future where the Earth's former inhabitants now live in an orbital ring around the planet, and society has stratified into three classes. The protagonist is a young lower-class boy who takes over his father's job of washing the windows of the ring.

The manga has been serialized in Ikki since 2005. Three tankoubons have been released so far.

No details about the movie have been announced yet.

Following up on the recent news that Yuichi Nakamaru will be the first KAT-TUN member to do a solo stage show, it has now been announced that Tatsuya Ueda will be the first to hold a solo concert. The show will take place in September at the specially constructed Johnnys Theater in Aomi, Tokyo. That venue is also being used for the major Johnny's Jimusho show "SUMMARY" in August.

Ueda is currently scheduled to perform a total of 13 songs across various genres, such as rock, dance, ballad, and folk. He wrote and composed the songs himself. In addition, Ueda will be in charge of directing and producing the 90-minute show.

Ueda said that he will also demonstrate what he has gained from his hobby of boxing. For roughly the past three years, he has been going to the gym almost daily, developing a well-trained physique.