Posted: March 11, 2005

For the "F4 World Exhibition" tomorrow in Tokyo, the hosting unit
spent 1 million Yen. An artist was hired to do a huge oil painting of
F4. Although the exhibition hasn't started yet, the huge portrait has
become the place to worship F4.

F4 became popular in Japan because of "Meteor Garden". The 18-
day "Meteor Garden F4 World Exhibition" will start tomorrow at Tokyo
Se Gu Parco Museum. Over 100,000 people are expected to go. The
hosting unit especially used F4's huge oil painting as the focal for
publicizing. Just the painting took a month to complete and cost over
1 million Yen (about HKD$70,000).

The manufacturing unit first invited a professional to draw a
portrait of F4 and then painted it. Many F4 fans especially went to
admire it and slogans were also written on the posters "F4, wild and
loved by everyone, is finally coming!" Posters are everywhere, even
elevators of malls have F4 posters.

Because F4's dramas, "Meteor Garden," "Poor Prince," "Love Scar," and
others, are going to be shown in Japan successively and their
album "Can't Lose You" will be releasing on March 24th. In F4, ZZ is
first to go to Japan to promote. Next will be Jerry Yan and the
exhibition will release the Japanese version of Jerry's pictorial. A
buying upsurge is expected.

ZZ and Da S are in Tokyo promoting "Meteor Garden" and "Mars" and
have received big star treatment. After they just landed a few days
ago they accepted a series of TV and magazine interviews. The media
even went into ZZ's room and saw that there were 20 sets of clothing
inside.

"Sheng Tang Jiao Fu"'s designer Yi Teng Da also designed for ZZ. As
for Da S, her professional designer also designed for her, including
5 spring outfits and name brand shoes.

Yesterday night ZZ and Da S indeed dressed up to attend a press
conference. Because this is the two's first time to promote in Japan
plus the fact that they have become the local new favorites, they
attracted over 100 reporters, a situation unprecendented. Even
outside were hundreds of fans. One can see how popular they are.

Source: Sing Tao

Translated by Amy