Japan Fashion Leader Award 2011
The award ceremony of “Japan Fashion Award 2011” , a prize given to celebrities who are highly rated for a lot of contributions to spreading of casual fashion in Japan was hosted by Takarajima Inc., a major publisher on the Dec.6th
in Tokyo. http://tkj.jp/campaign/fla2011/
The award was given to five popular showbiz females, namely, Tomomi Itano(an AKB48 member), Rinka (a fashion model), Nozomi Sasaki (a fashion model), Becky(a TV personality),and Ryoko Yonekura(an actor).
This was the third annual ceremony which started in 2009 and Rinka, who was absent from the ceremony this time due to pregnancy, has received the award three straight years since the first one. However, she extended her great joy of the reception via a video clip, which was conveyed to the audience with the other four winners’ excited speeches full of rapture and appreciation.