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200,000 ChariT-shirts designed by Ohno Satoshi sold in record time

On June 24th, the President of NTV held a production announcement conference in Shiodome, Tokyo Tower. During the event, the full list of personalities to appear in the main show "24 Hour Television 36 Love Saves the Earth" (August 24th-25th) were announced.

During the conference, Director Watanabe Hiroshi talked about the release of this year's ChariT-shirts, "The design of this year is selling at the rate of four times the rate of last year". The sale started on June 14th and sold 110,000 copies on its first 3 days, which is already a record. Until June 23rd, a total of 200,00 t-shirts have been sold. Last year, during the same period sales reached 50,000 copies. This sale rate has been pointed out as "crazy" due to the magnitude of the response.

Last year Ohno worked with contemporary artist Nara Yoshitomo and their design sold 764,198 copies, making it the most succesful in history.

This time, the chariT-shirt has the theme of "Love" and Arashi Ohno Satoshi (32) served as main personality, in collaboration with avant-garde artist, Yayoi Kusama. This year the t-shirts have a mesh design with dots as motif. Kusama has received numerous awards; including Gold Rays with Rosette as 4th class of the Order of the Rising Sun.

http://www.jenewsdaily.com/2013/07/2...n-record-time/

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This's it , going to see Sakurai later on today in the afternoon at MBS for the red carpet event , alongside with the world premiere of the Nazotoki movie