Yamashita Tomohisa

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Name: Yamashita Tomohisa
Occupation: Singer, Actor
Born: April 9th, 1985
Height/Weight: 175cm, 64kg
Group: NewS
Entertainment Company: Johnny's Entertainment
Graduated: Meiji University
Debut: 1996 Johnny's Junior
Award: 2006, 9th Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prize the best actor award

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Yamashita Tomohisa's nickname is Yamapi. The Pi stands for the color pink and it was made while he was a Johny's Junior. You might be wondering what a Johnny's Junior is. Johnny's Entertainment has many talented and good looking boys that are wishing to debut. Before they can debut as a singer, they're all Johnny's Juniors. Johnny's Juniors are all boys who're getting ready to make their debut. While they're a Johnny's Junior, they form small, unofficial groups called "units" and play small roles in dramas. By doing this, they're trained and getting experience in many areas, which helps them when they make their official debut. However, not all Johnny's Juniors get to debut, only a few, most talented boys get to make their debut. Yamapi is very well known for his good looks all over Asia. In Korea, he's one of the most well known Japanese actor because he looks very similar to Kim Hyun Joong, a member of a very famous boy band, SS501.

Yamapi is very famous for his great acting in Japan. Almost all of his dramas were successful and he's called the next Kimura Takuya, who is a legendary Japanese idol, a member of SMAP. Since he's still fairly young, lots people have very high expectations on him. He has the perfect looks and the skills to become the next no.1 top star in Japan. I've watched many of his dramas: Nobuta wo Produce, Code Blue 1&2, Dragon Zakura, Buzzer Beat, and so on. His dramas are really great! I love Yamapi!

Hottest Japanese Idol Star!

KAT-TUN is a very famous boy band in Japan. They are from the Johnny's Entertainment company (same entertainment with Arashi). There are six members of KAT-TUN and one of them, Kamenashi Kazuya, is one of the hottest Japanese idol star. He's one of my favorite celebrities too!

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Birth: February 23rd, 1986
Height/Weight: 172cm, 58kg
Debut: 2006 KAT-TUN single album "Real Face"
*2006 was when he made his debut as a singer. He actually started as an actor in 1999, when he was only 13 years-old!

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He looks like a typical Japanese person which attracts me. The pictures above are captures of a music video of KAT-TUN's song "White X'Mas". I provided you with the music video below, if you wish to listen to the song!

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He starred in several very famous dramas in Japan, such as Gokusen 2, Nobuta wo Produce, Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, and much more. Gokusen is one of my favorite Japanese dramas and Kamenashi played the main role with Akanishi Jin, who is another member of KAT-TUN. Akanishi and Kamenashi are known as Akame to the fans! It's a nickname for those two. I don't really like Akanishi Jin because he had many scandals with female celebrities and he sort of has a play boy image. Even though Kamenashi sort of looks cold and self-centered, when he smiles, he looks really cute and kind. I like how his face can change so much.


Kamenashi is a great baseball player too. He participated in a world wide baseball championship as one of Japan's representative in elementary school. When Johnny's Entertainment holds a sports day, Kamenashi always wins the MVP in baseball. He looks really good in a baseball cap! Due to his great interest in baseball, he's recently become an emcee of a sports news. He has so much talents!

KAT-TUN is holding a concert in Korea this summer. I'm really looking forward to it! However, since there are many fans of KAT-TUN in Korea, it's going to be really hard to get tickets for the concert. I hope I'm lucky enough to get a good seat for the concert.

I love 嵐 (ARASHI)!

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Today, I want to introduce to you my favorite Japanese boy band, Arashi. They were formed by a very famous Japanese talent agency named the Johnny & Associates, Inc.. Johnny & Associates, Inc. is well known to only promote boy bands (no girl groups are promoted from this company). Members of Arashi got trained from this agency since they were ten to thirteen years-old.

There are five members in Arashi, they are:

1. Sho Sakurai

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Sho is very well known for his intelligence. He graduated from Keio University, which is one of the top universities in Japan, while doing all the work as a member of Arashi. Since he is very smart, he also takes a job of an anchor in the news every Monday afternoon. It's really interesting how a singer could take a job as a new anchor. He says that he reads three newspapers everyday to be updated with new information for the news. I think he's doing a pretty good job. I proud of him!

2. Satoshi Ohno

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Ohno is the leader of Arashi but he barely talks on television shows but he has a very calm personality which gathers all the members together. He is the oldest of all the members and he is very artistic, he even had an art exhibition with his own art work. His hobby is to go fishing, he says he goes fishing whenever he has free time.

3. Kazunari Ninomiya

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He is very well known for his great acting skills. He even starred in a Hollywood film called "Letters From Iwo Jima" and was invited to the Berlin International Film Festival. He is also very good at playing baseball, his dream was to actually become a baseball player when he was young. I like him the most out of all the members of Arashi because he has a very cute face!

4. Jun Matsumoto

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Matsumoto is well known for his handsome face and fashion sense. He is also well known as "Domyoji", which is a character that he played in a very famous drama called "Hana Yori Dango (or Boy Over Flowers in English translation)". I really liked this drama! This drama is actually based on a very famous Japanese comic and it was formed into a drama three time already (once in Japan, once in Korea, and once in Taiwan). I'll tell you about this drama later on in my blog! Anyway, I like Matsumoto but he's not my favorite because he is not very good at singing. He has a nasal singing voice, which makes me frustrated sometimes. However, I really like him when he's acting!

5. Masaki Aiba

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Aiba is well known for his good personality. He always smiles and he is energetic all the time. When I look at him, he makes me feel happy! Aiba is the tallest of all the members of Arashi. He just finished filming a Japanese drama named "My Girl" a few months ago. I don't think the story of the drama was very entertaining but Aiba still looked really cute in it so I liked it!

Arashi is definitely the most popular group in Japan right now. They won first, second, fourth, and fifth place on the yearly J-pop chart last year and they have three television shows of their own.
1. Himitsu no Arashi-chan (ひみつの嵐ちゃん!)

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2. Arashi no Shukudai-kun (嵐の宿題くん)

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3. vs Arashi (VS嵐)







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This year, every song they've released was ranked number one on the J-pop chart and all the members are really busy with movies, dramas, television shows, singing, play performances, and more.

This is a new song by Arashi called "Troublemaker".

I really like this song! I think it's really cute which matches very well with Arashi's image. When I listen to songs by Arashi, it give me energy. I think that's the best part of Arashi and that's on of reasons that I like them.

I wish Arashi was interesting to read about! Ask me any questions or leave comments if you enjoyed this post or you're really interested about Arashi. I'll be more than happy to provide you some more resources!