Pop group Dreams Come True performed along with top foreign acts including Jamiroquai and Ashanti at yesterday’s “MTV Asahi Super Dry Live” event. The show was held at the Yoyogi No.1 Gymnasium in Tokyo. The theme of the event was making dreams come true and DCT vocalist Yoshida Miwa (photo, 40) helped one young couple do just that. After the band’s performance, she took part in a marriage ceremony on stage.
• Pop diva Mariah Carey (35) arrived in town yesterday for the MTV Video Music Awards show tomorrow. It’s only been two months since her last visit, which was to promote her latest album, “Mimi,” which has sold over 2 million copies in the US and about 300,000 here. About 1,000 fans turned out to greet her at Narita Airport. Dressed in her trademark low-cut dress, she told her fans “Aishitemasu!” (I love you!). She appeared last night on the live “SmaStation-4” TV Asahi show, talking to SMAP member Katori Shingo.
• Oscar winners Morgan Freeman (67) and Hilary Swank (30) seem to be enjoying their visit to Japan. Both appeared at the Japan premier of “Million Dollar Baby” and Freeman joked that he’s planning to stay in Japan to master the language. When asked in an interview what he thought of Watanabe Ken (45), Freeman replied that he sees him becoming the next Mifune Toshiro, who in his day was the Japanese actor best known outside the country. Swank said she spent her day off yesterday getting a foot massage and shopping in Harajuku. Saying she’s a big Yomiuri Giants fan, she said she had to get a baseball cap before she left. She could always get one in the Japan Zone Store of course…