Category: Arashi/嵐

Arashi Message to Fans

by Fiona

The following message was found on Johnnys-net:

今回の地震で被害に遭われた皆様に、心よりお悔やみ、お見舞い申し上げます。

連日の報道を見れば見るほど、知れば知るほど、被災された皆さんのことが、とても心配です。

沢山のファンの方が、僕らのことまで気にかけて下さっていると聞きましたが、僕たちは全員大丈夫です。ご安心下さい。

いま、節電・節水・緊急時以外の電話の使用を控えること・義援金の協力…、東京にいる僕たちができることに努めています。きっと、小さなことの積み重ねが大きな力になることを信じて。

僕たちの活動の中で、できることは限られていると思いますが、“皆さんが少しでも笑顔になれるように…”と想いをこめて、目の前にあることに全力で取り組んでいきます。

被災地の皆さんにとって、まだまだ予断を許さない状況は続いているとは思いますが、ご家族やお友達、周りの方々と励ましあって、何とか今を乗り越えられるよう、メンバー一同願っています。

嵐

大野智, 櫻井翔, 相葉雅紀, 二宮和也 ,松本潤

Translation found on the arashi_no_jidai LJ community:

We offer our deepest sympathy to those affected by this earthquake.
The more we watch the daily reports, the more we know (about the devastation), the more worried we get about those affected by the disaster.
We’ve heard that many fans are worrying for us even. All of us are alright. Please do not worry.
In Tokyo, we are doing what we can in moderating our usage of electricity, water and the usage of the telephone unnecessarily, and in making donations… Please have faith that small actions can build on each other to form a great force.
Although there is a limit to what we can do in schedules, we will put our greatest effort in doing what is before us, bearing the thought “I hope we can make everyone smile even if just a bit”.
For those from the areas struck by the disaster, although the situation is still continuing to be unpredictable, all our members hope that with mutual encourage from family, friends and people around you, we can ride this through somehow.

Arashi
Ohno Satoshi, Sakurai Sho, Aiba Masaki, Ninomiya Kazunari, Matsumoto Jun

I’ve been following the news intensely regarding the nuclear plant issue. It’s quite devastating to know another worrisome situation burdens them. My thoughts and prayers are with Japan for everyone’s safety.

I hope we can make everyone smile even if just a bit.
Bravo to Arashi and everyone are extending their hands to help those in need. Let’s all continue to pray for them.

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

by Fiona
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

by Fiona

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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