RAG FAIR (ラグフェアー Ragu Feā ) is a Japanese male a cappella group. Its current members include Reo Tsuchiya, Yosuke Hikichi, Kenichi Arai, and Yoshiyuki Kato. Former members include Takamasa Kano and Masayoshi Okumura.
6-537: The band members met each other at Saitama University . An a cappella circle named "chocoletz" (チョコレッツ) was formed in Saitama University in 1997, and RAG FAIR emerged from this in 1999. They developed streetlives in those days around Ōmiya Station and Musashi-Urawa Station . In 2001, RAG FAIR debuted with album "I RAG YOU." In 2002, two singles were released simultaneously, "Koi no mileage" (恋のマイレージ) and "She side story" (Sheサイドストーリー). The singles achieved
12-754: A live tour named "THAT'S RAG FAIR." Saitama University Saitama University (埼玉大学, Saitama Daigaku ) is a Japanese national university located in a suburban area of Sakura-ku , Saitama City , capital of Saitama Prefecture in Tokyo Metropolitan Area . Founded in 1873, it became a national university is 1949, and currently has five faculties (schools) for undergraduate education: Liberal Arts, Education, Economics, Science, and Engineering; and four graduate schools: Cultural Science, Education, Economic Science, and Science and Engineering. All of these schools offer programs leading to doctorates as well as master's degrees. The total enrollment in
18-1667: Is the main campus in Saitama university and can be accessed by bus or walking from Minami-Yono Station , Kita-Urawa Station , or Shiki Station . Saitama university has two satellite campuses : To provide aspiring overseas students an opportunity to pursue higher education in Japan, International Graduate Program on Civil and Environmental Engineering was launched by the Graduate School of Science and Engineering in 1992. It offers opportunities to highly qualified students from overseas to pursue graduate studies and do research in various disciplines of environmental science and civil engineering. The fields of study include Infrastructure Management, Transportation Planning, Environmental Engineering, Ecological Engineering, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering, Concrete and Material Engineering, Structural and Wind Engineering, Earthquake Engineering. The graduate program includes courses specially designed for international students, in which class instruction and research supervision are given in English and/or Japanese. Master thesis and doctoral dissertation are accepted in English. Japanese language courses are also offered for foreign students and their spouses. So far, 215 students from different countries have graduated from this program and are now engaged in academic and professional activities in different parts of
24-476: The first and second places, respectively, in the singles' first appearances in the Oricon Weekly Ranking charts. RAG FAIR participated for the first time in the 53rd annual NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen in 2002, performing "Koi no mileage." In October 2003, their comedy program "Omatase! RAG Teishoku" (おまたせ！ラグ定食) began airing on Fuji TV . The program ran until March 2004. At the end of the program,
30-850: The members announced a second "renewal" comedy program, entitled RAG&PEACE. This program ran for another six months in 2004. A commercial the band shot for McDonald's "Fish Mac Dipper" aired in March 2004. It received the McDonald's Excellent Advertising Award for 2004. The band performed their first live at the Nippon Budokan publicly on December 10, 2005, and they released the DVD "streetlive! in Budoukan." In January 2011, RAG FAIR announced that they would take an indefinite dormancy period starting March 2011, concluding their performance career with
36-561: The university is more than 8,500 with more than 500 overseas students pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Its abbreviated form is Saidai (埼大). The predecessor of the university, Saitama Normal School, was founded in 1873. It was chartered as a national university in 1949 by the merger of Urawa Higher School ( 浦和高等学校 , Urawa Kōtō Gakkō ) established 1929, Saitama Normal School ( 埼玉師範学校 , Saitama Shihan Gakkō ) , and Saitama Youth Normal School ( 埼玉青年師範学校 , Saitama Seinen Shihan Gakkō ) established 1922. Ōkubo campus
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