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“Special classes” with Arashi at the Tokyo Dome

Popular group Arashi held a charity event, “Arashi no Wakuwaku Gakkou“, for disaster relief at the Tokyo Dome!

As tokyohive reported previously, each Arashi member became a “teacher” by turns and gave the “students” lectures, making the Tokyo Dome like a big classroom.
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The event was held for three days from June 24th to 26th, when it was originally scheduled for Arashi’s live concerts, however, considering its electricity consumption, they changed the plan to a charity event. Usually their concerts use 2000 kilowatts, but for the event, they reduced it to 830 kilowatts.

The lectures by the members were based on things that are important to consider for Japan now. Ninomiya Kazunari’s lecture was about human body structure and taught the “students” the meaning of living. Matsumoto Jun gave a lecture about electricity and energy. For this lecture, all members tried the generation of electricity using bicycles. They showed the power that the members saved while getting all sweaty only lasted for 8 seconds when used by a hair dryer. Matsumoto commented, “I hope it made everybody realize how important the electricity was.”

On the other hand, Aiba Masaki showed his cooking skills on the stage, and taught how foods are delivered to the consumers. He pointed out the large amount of food leftovers in Japan and said, “The way of solving the food shortage is to not waste foods.“ Sakurai Sho’s lecture was titled as “Pachi Pachi no Jugyou”, which taught the importance of praising somebody, and Ohno Satoshi gave a lecture about how miraculous his encounters with people were. Ohno stated, “Words are the biggest device to create a link between people. Everybody, please tell ‘Arigatou’ a lot to your precious people.”
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At the beginning of the event, the fans were just screaming at Arashi, however, they gradually started to devour the lectures, and there were fans who were taking notes on the lectures.

With this big success, Arashi members said that they would like to hold this kind of event again.

The event pulled a total of 225,000 people in three days, and they will donate 200 million yen (approximately 2,486,943 USD) through Marching J.

From Tokyo and Sanspo

I really hope that a DVD will be released, kind of missing their old variety shows. They are always entertaining and educational to watch, having the boys becomes senseis are a plus. ;) Arashi is truly RE(MARK)ABLE; they define the word, IDOL, in so many unique ways. :D

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Arashi sells a total of over five million DVDs

This week, Arashi released their live DVD “ARASHI 10-11 TOUR “Scene”~Kimi to Boku no Miteiru Fuukei~ DOME+,” selling 539,000 copies in the first week, putting them on top of the 6/27 Weekly Oricon Chart. Up until then, Arashi sold 4.74 million copies of their DVDs and now including their latest DVD they’ve broken the 5 million threshold and have sold a total of 5,282,000 copies. Because of this remarkable feat, Arashi become the first artist to sell over 5 million DVDs!

The group currently holds the top spot for “Artist with the most DVDs sold”. The number two spot is held by Morning Musume with 2,695,000 copies.

Arashi’s DVD is a recording of the last performance of their tour which took place from August 2010 until January 2011. The DVD also includes the music video and making video to their new song “Mada Minu Sekai e” as well as a project by the members called “Arashi’s Training Camp” and a long interview.

From Tokyohive

Sugoi ne, that’s what you call “creating a storm!!” Omedetou Arashi, my fangirl heart is swelling with pride. :D

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What is the best Johnny’s Entertainment TV program?

The men of Johnny’s Entertainment are everywhere, and their shows are interesting, entertaining, and funny.

As such, Goo took it upon themselves to ask their readers which Johnny’s program they felt was the best, and after 22,467 votes, we have our ranking!

Check it out below!

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10. 5LDK

9. Bouken JAPAN Kanjani8 MAP

8. Kanjani no Shiwake 8

7. The Shonen Club

6. Shin Doumoto Kyoudai

5. The! Tetsuwan! DASH!

4. VS Arashi

3. SMAP x SMAP

2. Arashi ni Shiyagare

1. Himitsu no Arashi-chan!

Source: Tokyohive & Goo

Now if Arashi no Shukudai-kun and Mago Mago Arashi were still airing, they would be ranked number 1 and 2. Himitsu is cute, but cannot compare to the classics. :) SMAP x SMAP, Shin Doumoto Kyoudai and 5LDK are awesome as well, always get a good kick while watching these. Where is Gakkou e Ikou and Janiben though?

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Confirmation of all JE artists are safe from Johnny’s Net

Click on go to Johnny's net

For a list of Japanese personalities of their safety status can be found here.

Please continue pray for the people in Japan and there are ample ways to provide assistance. Here are some:

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Huge Japan quake causes tsunami, fires, landslide

A massive 8.9 magnitude quake hit northeast Japan Friday, causing many injuries, fires and a four-meter (13-ft) tsunami along parts of the country’s coastline, NHK television and witnesses reported.

There were several strong aftershocks and a warning of a 10-meter tsunami following the quake, which also caused buildings to shake violently in the capital Tokyo.

TV pictures showed a vast wall of water carrying buildings and debris across a large swathe of coastal farmland.

Public broadcaster NHK showed flames and black smoke billowing from a building in Odaiba, a Tokyo suburb, and bullet trains to the north of the country were halted.

Black smoke was also pouring out of an industrial area in Yokohama’s Isogo area. TV footage showed boats, cars and trucks floating in water after a small tsunami hit the town of Kamaichi in northern Japan. An overpass, location unknown, appeared to have collapsed into the water.

Kyodo news agency said there were reports of fires in the city of Sendai in the northeast.

“The building shook for what seemed a long time and many people in the newsroom grabbed their helmets and some got under

their desks,” Reuters correspondent Linda Sieg said in Tokyo.

“It was probably the worst I have felt since I came to Japan more than 20 years ago.”

Passengers on a subway line in Tokyo screamed and grabbed other passengers’ hands. The shaking was so bad it was hard to stand, said Reuters reporter Mariko Katsumura.

Hundreds of office workers and shoppers spilled into Hitotsugi street, a shopping street in Akasaka in downtown Tokyo.

Household goods ranging from toilet paper to clingfilm were flung into the street from outdoor shelves in front of a drugstore.

Crowds gathered in front of televisions in a shop next to the drugstore for details. After the shaking from the first quake subsided, crowds were watching and pointing to construction cranes on an office building up the street with voices saying, “They’re still shaking!,” “Are they going to fall?”

Asagi Machida, 27, a web designer in Tokyo, sprinted from a coffee shop when the quake hit.

“The images from the New Zealand earthquake are still fresh in my mind so I was really scared. I couldn’t believe such a big earthquake was happening in Tokyo.”

The U.S. Geological Survey earlier verified a magnitude of 7.9 at a depth of 15.1 miles and located the quake 81 miles east of Sendai, on the main island of Honshu. It later upgraded it to 8.8.

A police car drove down Hitotsugi Street, lights flashing, announcing through a bullhorn that there was still a danger of shaking.

The Tokyo stock market extended its losses after the quake was announced. The central bank said it would do everything to ensure financial stability.

Japan’s northeast Pacific coast, called Sanriku, has suffered from quakes and tsunamis in the past and a 7.2 quake struck Wednesday. In 1933, a magnitude 8.1 quake in the area killed more than 3,000 people. Last year fishing facilities were damaged after by a tsunami caused by a strong tremor in Chile.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically active areas. The country accounts for about 20 percent of the world’s earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater.

From Yahoo

Reports on kat-tunworldwide.com indicate that Arashi and many JE artists are fine.

This is extremely terrifying, I hope everyone is Japan is alright and safe. The tsunamis will be affecting the Pacific today as well, let’s all pray and god bless everyone!

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