Korean model MINJI will be making her debut as both an actress and a singer this December. She has been cast as the heroine in Nobuo Mizuta's disaster flick "252: Seizonsha Ari," which stars Hideaki Ito and Masaaki Uchino.

The trilingual MINJI is singing the movie's theme song, "LOVE ALIVE," entirely in Japanese. MINJI actually majored in Japanese language and literature while at university. "LOVE ALIVE" will be released as a single on December 3, three days before the movie premieres in Japan.

On Saturday, an event was held in Odaiba to debut a new Hello! Pro Eggs unit that has been chosen to do the opening theme of "Shugo Chara!! Doki," the continuation of the "Shugo Chara!" anime series.

The four-member unit is appropriately named Shugo Chara Eggs! and consists of Yuka Maeda, Akari Saho, Ayaka Wada, and Kanon Fukuda. Their debut song, titled "Minna no Tamago," will be released on December 10.

"Shugo Chara!! Doki" premieres on October 4.

Singer-songwriter Masashi Sada will be the subject of a tribute album being released on October 22, titled "Sada no Uta." Sada is recognized as one of Japan's top artists, with over 3,600 solo concerts in his career and more than 500 songs released on CD. Last week, it was announced that he will be releasing a Hibari Misora cover album, also due out on October 22.

"Sada no Uta" brings together 10 artists, none of whom are affiliated with Sada's record label. The participants include BEGIN, SEAMO, Aya Matsuura, Ayaka Hirahara (with her father, sax player Makoto Hirahara), THE ALFEE, Ken Nishikiori, taiko drummer Eitetsu Hayashi, and rakugoka Danshun Tatekawa (covering an on-stage monologue by Sada).