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Johnny & Associates announced the group's debut on September 15, 1999, through a press conference aboard a cruise ship off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii. [12] Then-president Johnny Kitagawa chose five trainees from the Johnny's Jr. division of the agency to become the members of Arashi, the Japanese word for Storm, and to represent the agency's thrust of "creating a storm throughout the world".
On January 9, 2010, Sakurai co-starred with the other members of Arashi in the human suspense drama special Saigo no Yakusoku. In 2001, he took part in his first drama series called Tengoku ni Ichiban Chikai Otoko 2 (天国に一番近い男 – 教師編, The Man Closest to Heaven 2) with Masahiro Matsuoka as his teacher. His role as a student ...
Starto Entertainment (Japanese: スタートエンターテイメント, Hepburn: Stāto entāteimento) is a Japanese entertainment company that provides artist management services established on October 17, 2023. [1]
"Tsunagu" is the 52nd single by Japanese boy band Arashi. It was released on June 28, 2017 under their record label J Storm. "Tsunagu" is the theme song for the film Shinobi no Kuni starring Arashi member Satoshi Ohno. The single sold over 380,000 copies in its first week and topped the weekly Oricon Singles Chart. [3]
In 1996, he became a trainee under Johnny & Associates as a part of group Johnny's Junior. He debuted as a singer in a then eight-member Japanese band called NEWS and as a soloist in 2006. In 1998, he later debuted as an actor with a small role in 'NHK's Shonentachi'. Since debuting, he is widely known as 'Yamapi', short for Yamashita and Pink.
KAT-TUN (カトゥーン, Katūn) is a Japanese boy band formed under Smile-Up (formerly known as Johnny & Associates) in 2001.The group's name was originally an acronym based on the first letter of each member's family name: Kazuya Kamenashi, Jin Akanishi, Junnosuke Taguchi, Koki Tanaka, Tatsuya Ueda, and Yuichi Nakamaru.
Before the establishment of the sister company J Storm, the label produced DVDs for KAT-TUN, Kanjani Eight, and Johnny's Jr. In May 2003, Johnny's Entertainment began investing in the Swedish music publisher Reactive Songs International. [9] The company closed on May 31, 2019, and transferred to J Storm, re-branded as Johnny's Entertainment Record.
For his solo song "Hello Goodbye", Aiba played the harmonica portion of the song throughout Arashi's Arashi Marks 2008 Dream-A-Live and Arashi Marks Arashi Around Asia 2008 concert tours. Aiba also used to play the saxophone; however, due to the collapse of one of his lungs in 2002, he was forced to stop playing due to the operation he had to ...