Category: Artists

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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Aiba Masaki to be a navigator for 2010 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships

by Fiona

On Fuji Television, the “2010 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships” will be broadcasted for 5 nights in a row, and Arashi member, Aiba Masaki has been chosen as a navigator for the championship, now for the 2nd year in a row.

This year, Aiba will go to Rotterdam where the championship will take place. He also visited the training grounds of Japan’s varsity team which was held in September, and interviewed them. Aiba commented, “I feel extremely high about it. I hope I can report something that you can only report from the actual site.”

From Tokyohive

Gambatte Aiba-chan!!

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