Author: Fiona

Arashi members attend Haneda Airport’s ribbon cutting ceremony

by Fiona

Arashi’s Jun Matsumoto (27), Masaki Aiba (27), and Satoshi Ohno (29) took part in Saturday’s ribbon cutting ceremony ahead of Haneda Airport’s newest international terminal, reports The Television.

Named as Japan’s tourism navigators by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism since April this year, the group have been taking part in various promotions to help get overseas guests interested in Japan.

Speaking at yesterday’s ceremony, the Arashi members congratulated officials on the new terminal’s opening.

“I feel incredibly honoured to have been invited to take part in this ceremony on this memorable day,” Ohno said.

“I think that if Haneda Airport changes, so will Japan, and that makes me excited. Our role as tourism navigators here might be small, but I want to work as hard as I can to encourage overseas visitors to come to Japan,” Matsumoto said.

While the new runway for the international terminal will not be open until October 21, Aiba talked about his experience on the runway when the Arashi Jet was allowed to make a special trip down it last week.

“I got to see and walk on the new runway with the other members the other day. People told us stories about how it was developed, and for the first time we realised that there were so many people involved in transforming Haneda Airport into an international aiport,” he said.

From Momoedgewood

So proud of them, the boys are getting more involved in important socioeconomic events now.

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Ex-Johnny’s Jr. Kohara Yuki divulges on ‘A-Studio’ about Ninomiya Kazunari

by Fiona

Arashi member Ninomiya Kazunari made an appearance on October 15th’s episode of “A-Studio“, a variety talk show hosted by MCs Shofukutei Tsurube and IMALU. Interestingly enough, Tsurube researches his guest throughly by watching their work, even going as far as interviewing people who are close to the guest. The interviewees could be the guest’s manager, old friend, or family member; the guest doesn’t get to know who received the interview until the show airs.

For this episode, Tsurube interviewed ex-Johnny’s Jr. member Kohara Yuki. Kohara Yuki was extremely popular back in the day, but retired in order to concentrate on his studies in 2000. Kohara is now an ordinary business man, but he’s still close to the JE boys, particularly Ninomiya and Sakurai Sho. Kohara revealed in the interview that Ninomiya grabbed his cellphone when he quit JE, and changed his name to “Best friend“. He confessed that it made him very happy when he saw the change on his phone.

From Tokyohive

This is such a nice little article about friendship, glad that Kohara-kun is well and living a good life.

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Ohno Satoshi stars in Arashi’s fourth Hitachi commercial

by Fiona

Arashi leader Satoshi Ohno (29) was all about fishing when it came to shooting his new commercial for Hitachi’s drum type washer and dryer, reports Oricon today.

The group have been promoting Hitachi home appliances this year, with each member appearing in their own commercial with one appliance. To date Masaki Aiba (27) has been advertising washing machines, Sho Sakurai (28) vacuum cleaners, and Kazunari Ninomiya (27) refrigerators.

Ohno’s commercial takes place in an apartment, where the Arashi leader is relaxing on his day off by reading fishing magazines. As he starts fixing and polishing up his fishing gear, he notices the invitation to a friend’s wedding stuck on the wall. Realizing that today is the wedding day, Ohno gasps out, “Shoot! It’s going to start,” throws on a shirt from the washer dryer and runs out the door.

As a self-proclaimed fishing enthusiast, it has been reported Ohno paid a lot of attention to the fishing gear used on set. Enough so that even after the director had called cut during a scene, Ohno had continued to read the fishing magazine.

“I want go fishing…,” Ohno said.

For the latter part of the shoot, it has been reported Ohno had trouble putting his shirt on in a hurry.

The singer had trouble doing up his buttons properly, or his collar was not straight. After three tries and commenting, “this is hard,” the Arashi leader got the needed shot.

Ohno’s new commercial for Hitachi’s ヒートリサイクル　風アイロン　ビッグドラム (Heat Recycle Kaze-iron Big Drum) washer and dryer is set to go on air in Japan from October 16.

From Momoedgewood

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7Z6jbsFEU

Oh-chan is so adorable, I bet he was really reading those magazine. I love how he tries to promotes fishing whenever he has the chance.

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