At a friend's behest I start translating this 10-page monster of an exclusive interview which Mary Kitagawa had with Shuukan Bunshun. It touches on many Johnny's groups and more importantly addresses the faction war rumors that have been brewing for years. Definitely worth a read, though I'm only done about a third of the entire article and haven't ( Read more... )

Was waiting for scans of the latest Josei Jishin to crop up and decided to do this one while I waited. Normally I'd break this down to three parts or so but I ended up translating everything in one go. As a result there's probably an embarrassing amount of typos and wonky sentences in there somewhere so please ignore them as best as you can ( Read more... )

In light of all the talk lately about Arashi possibly going international with their Hawaii concerts and Shanghai live viewing of Wakuwaku, I thought this was a really interesting read that was worth translating from beginning to end. He starts off talking about being the MC for "Ongaku no chikara" and other programs, but he also talks about music ( Read more... )

Here's another cute cross talk! This is between Ikuta Toma and Yara Tomoyuki from Musical Academy. They take a trip down memory lane and also name drop a few people from other groups (including Arashi and TOKIO) in the process ( Read more... )

Couldn't sleep at all, so I buckled down and translated this talk from last year between Joshima and Ohno-- in other words, TOKIO's and Arashi's leaders. They talked at length about the leadership (or lack thereof) within their respective groups, and also discussed the leaders of other older groups like V6, SMAP, and Shounentai. It's worth a read ( Read more... )

Sorry for the lack of updates, real life has really been eating up all my time and energy. The last +act mini interview with Arashi ni Shiyagare's producer is almost done - I'd say about 80% done - so hopefully I'll have that up over the weekend or something. In the meantime, I translated Nino's solo interview from the latest issue of Potato ( ( Read more... )

As promised, here is the translation of Tonisen's Q&As from Oristar where they answered questions sent in from readers, wherein Nagano is an expert, Inocchi is cheeky, Leader is just a little fail, and other groups are mentioned.

I'll try to get to the group talk soon, but in the meantime please enjoy!

( Only Star - 03/29/2010 - Part 2 )

This is a very short crosstalk between Ohno and Mabo but it's too funny not to share, especially when they're asked things like "What would you do if Arashi/TOKIO were your kids?"

Here's a quick teaser photo to have an idea of which "battle" the article refers to. Enjoy!


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This article is four and a half years old, but it's as amazing now as it was then. The leader of TOKIO fielded all kinds of questions from various Johnny's-- ranging from (ex in some cases?) Jrs. like Toma and Taiyo to Arashi's Ohno to even Sakamoto from V6 (check the tags for the full list). The only groups missing are probably SMAP and KinKi Kids ( Read more... )

Following Leader's first interview, you can find Gussan's thoughts towards their concerts and latest (at the time of printing) releases from their OVER 30's WORLD concert pamphlet. Enjoy!

( OVER 30's WORLD concert pamphlet - Yamaguchi Tatsuya (1 of 2) )