Hongo Kanata - actor
At the age of 10, he auditioned for Johnny's Jr. For this audition, he performed a magic trick. This was aired on NTV.

Inoue Yusuke (NON STYLE) - comedian
His mother once watched Matsumoto Jun's drama and mumbled, "Why is my son so different?". Because of that, he wanted to be like Matsumoto Jun. [Arashi no Shukudai-kun 2009. ( Read more... )

• Before his debut, Kondo Masahiko already got the nickname Matchy. During that period, because of his hair style, his seniors told him,"You look like a match." and nicknamed him Matchy. [Kanjani8 no Shiwake Eito 2012.02.18]
• SMAP initiaded to round the corners of their signed cards to make it less dangerous when being thrown at concerts, since then ( Read more... )

• He can’t eat fried food. His stomach will somehow have trouble. [Chubaw Desu yo 2011.05.21]
• The first time he went fishing with Ohno Satoshi was for straight 25 hours. [HEY!HEY!HEY! 2009.04.27, Chubaw Desu yo 2011.05.21]

• He really hates to lose. He will feel very down once he loses. [Merengue no Kimochi 2011.01.22]

• When he was in the 5th year of primary school his parents divorced. [Myojo 2011.09]
• He used to be in a baseball team, Red Jaguars. He himself says that it was a weak team. When he was in 3rd grate he became the captain. [Myojo 2011.09]
• He failed the entrance exam for the high school he wanted to go to. He was really upset about it, because lots of ( Read more... )

• It was Shonentai's Higashiyama Noriyuki who choosed Hawaii as a place to announce Arashi's debut. The reason hw choosed Hawaii is because at that time he wanted to travel to Hawaii. [Arashi ni Shiyagare 2012.06.09]
• Their sitting arrangement in the green room will automatically be fixed after 2-3 times coming to that room. The seating arrangement ( Read more... )

• During the stage play ‘Stand by Me’, he did together with Aiba Masaki, Ninomiya Kazunari and Ikuta Toma his video game broke. He didn’t know why until 2008 Toma tells stories that he broke MatsuJun’s video game on TV and stuff. [Oshareism 2008.10.05]
• In the magazine Kindai from March 2000 he was asked what he wanted his girlfriend to call him. His ( Read more... )

• His physical condition will suffer the next day when he eats too much high class food. On the other hand he cannot leave something left on his plate. The Arashi members know this, so when they were together the others will eat it for him. [Arashi ni Shiyagare 2010.09.25]
• He will only listen to video game soundtracks in the car. [Himitsu no Arashi- ( Read more... )

• When he was in middle school age, during the stag play ‘Stand by Me’, he had a quarrel with Matsumoto Jun. So when MatsuJun went out to perform and Toma was left in the dressing room full with anger, he decided to play a prank on MatsuJun’s video game. He sprayed stuff on it and it became broken. He then keeps quiet about it, until years later, in ( Read more... )

• In elementary school he read in an encyclopedia that ants let out a sweet liquid from their butts, so he thought that ant's butts are sweet. He then tried eating ants. [Domoto Kyoudai 2001.08.26]