📺The NHK program “J-MELO,” featuring an interview with ANGERME, will be rebroadcast✨ Check the official website for details💫 #ANGERME# #HelloProject# #JMELO# #NHKWorld# #JPop# #idol# #JapaneseIdols# @angerme_upfront

TDK Corporation and NHK Spring Co., Ltd. are facing a major U.S. class-action lawsuit accusing them of working together to fix prices on hard disk drive suspension assemblies for more than 10 years. These suspension assemblies are tiny mechanical arms inside traditional hard drives that hold and move the read/write heads with high precision. According to the lawsuit, the companies secretly coordinated prices, shared confidential business information, and divided customers and markets between 2003 and 2016. The lawsuit says this affected about 97% of hard drives sold worldwide during that time. The higher costs were allegedly passed on to companies such as Seagate Technology, Western Digital, and Toshiba, and eventually to consumers who bought computers, servers, and external hard drives. A U.S. federal court has approved the case to move forward as a class action for indirect purchasers in many states. Public notices were issued this week, and eligible consumers are automatically included unless they opt out by August 23, 2026. People may qualify if they bought products containing traditional hard drives during the covered years in eligible states.

📺 Juice=Juice is appearing on NHK WORLD! ✨ Catch them on “J-MELO” on Nov 2, featuring an exclusive interview and live performance 🎤 🔗 More info: #JuiceJuice# #HelloProject# @JuiceJuice_uf

【HELLO! PROJECT STREAM】 It has been decided that the performance of "OCHA NORMA CONCERT TOUR 2023 SPRING ~Growing Up!~" held at NHK Osaka Hall on May 21st (Sun) will be streamed online! #Helloproject# #ocha_norma#

The desert remembers everything. I didn't fully understand that until I arrived in my second stop in Xinjiang—Ruoqiang, a small county in China's far west that most outsiders would struggle to find on a map. But mention its ancient name—Loulan—and something shifts. The kingdom first appears in the pages of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, China's foundational work of history, written over two thousand years ago. Back then, Loulan sat at the northwestern edge of the known world, perched on the northern shore of Lop Nor and straddling the great artery of the Silk Road. Merchants from Rome, Persia, India, and China passed through its gates. It was a place where languages blurred and currencies changed hands, where the smell of spices mingled with camel dust. For centuries, it thrived. Then it was gone. Loulan disappeared in the fourth century, leaving behind sand, silence, and an unanswered question that would haunt scholars for the next millennium and a half. The world rediscovered Loulan almost by accident. In March 1900, the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin was crossing the Taklamakan Desert when his Uyghur guide, Ordek, retraced his steps to recover a lost tool — and stumbled instead upon the ruins of an ancient city half-buried in the dunes. What Ordek had found was Loulan. The discovery set off more than a century of archaeological obsession for Loulan. But history had another layer waiting. After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, the Chinese government quietly established a nuclear test site near the ruins. On October 16, 1964, China's first atomic bomb detonated over the Lop Nor basin — not far from where Loulan's merchants had once haggled over silk and jade. The entire region was sealed as a classified military zone, off-limits to archaeologists and adventurers alike. The desert that had already swallowed one civilization was now guarding state secrets. Loulan, impossibly, became even more mysterious. The real shock came in the spring of 1980. A team led by Mu Shunying, the first woman archaeologist ever to enter the Lop Nor region, was excavating a burial site on the Tieben River delta when they uncovered something no one was prepared for: a remarkably well‑preserved female mummy that had slumbered beneath the desert sands for nearly 3,800 years. The press called her the Loulan Beauty. When a landmark documentary co-produced by CCTV and NHK brought her image to television screens across Asia and beyond, the reaction was something close to collective disbelief. Who was she? Where had her people come from? Why did they vanish? Nobody knows. And that curiosity, more than anything, is what pulled me across the desert to stand here.