Perfume’s Kashiyuka Dating

This past Friday Japanese entertainment & gossip magazine FRIDAY (フライデー) revealed that Japanese techno pop unit Perfume member Kashiyuka (かしゆか) has been spotted with a love interest.

Has Perfume’s Kashiyuka found true love?

Perfume’s Kashiyuka Caught Dating

The 3 girl unit, produced by Japanese musical genius Yasutaka Nakata (中田ヤスタカ) originated from Hiroshima.  With its unique “picopop” techno sound, Perfume hit it big in 2008 and received the top honor of performing at NHK’s year end “Kohaku Utagassen” extravaganza.

Perfume performing live on NHK’s annual Kohaku Utagassen music show on December 31, 2008

From L to R: A~chan, Nocchi and Kashiyuka

According to Friday, 20 year old Yuka Kashino (樫野有香) aka Kashiyuka was spotted having a private rendezvous at night with photographer Yoshiharu Ota (太田好治), also age 20 at a trendy cafe in the Sangenjaya district of Tokyo in the middle of May.  The couple went their separate ways afterward but just a week before there was a sighting of Kashiyuka entering the handsome young photographer’s apartment.

Unlike j-pop units such as Morning Musume or AKB48, Perfume is not exactly an idol group.  Thus I don’t foresee any problems or conflicts work wise for the lovely young cutie who loves to devour carbs.  You never know, her horny young beau might just slip and show us some “not so proper” pictures of Kashiyuka later down the line!

Perfume Reaches No.1

Perfume has been leading the way for “picopop”, a type of Japanese techno

The latest album from the all girl Japanese techno / pop group Perfume soared to the top on Japan’s Oricon Chart this week. “Game” is the second album released by the trio who hail from Hiroshima and is the first techno album to attain the No.1 position in nearly 25 years!

Kashiyuka (かしゆか), A~chan (あ～ちゃん) and Nocchi (のっち) started performing in their hometown when they were only 12 years old. They were picked up by famous Japanese musician / producer Yasutaka Nakata (中田ヤスタカ) and their music can be categorized as “picopop”.

Perfume shooting for the jacket of their second album “GAME”

Reacting to the revelation that their album has gone to the top of Oricon Chart, the talented and cute girls exclaimed, “This is great! Finally all of our hard work paid off. We’re really glad to have people who have supported, helped and told us not to give up since the beginning. There was a time we were happy just to make it to the top 100. Thank you all so much!”

Perfume: Kashiyuka (L), Nocchi (C) and A~chan (R)

Perfume’s “Game” beat out other popular Japanese artists such as rock band HY from Okinawa, folk duo Yuzu (whose lead singer Yuji Kitagawa is dating the crown jewel of Fuji TV announcer Aya Takashima – see my blog on 3/22), singstress YUI and R&B group Exile.