Here're some episodes about A LIFE that I earlier translated and shared on Twitter. Pretty cute stories ( Read more... )

1) What's Up SMAP 2016.08.26

Captain shared a story about how he got a chance to walk the runway at Yves Saint Laurent fashion show back in the day when his hair was still long. He met Hedi Slimane, YSL men’s artistic director, at a certain bar without realizing this is Hedi Slimane. Hedi asked him about his job. As Captain was too embarrassed to ( Read more... )

Last year Alexis initated this project called "Kimura Takuya's 42nd Birthday Challenge!!" as a way to celebrate Captain's birthday. I kinda joined this fun project, too and posted all the 42 day challenge countdown on my Facebook. It just came across my mind that I've never shared most of them here on lj yet ( Read more... )

1) What’s Up SMAP 2014.10.24

In this episode, we learn that apart from Takuro-san (GLAY), another male celebrity was also inspired by Shuji’s motorbike in Beautiful Life. xD


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(Source: www.tfm.co.jp/what-s/index.php?itemid=8598)

Nice stories on how fans got inspired by “One Chance!”

• A 52-year old fan said after attending the 1st day of concert in Tokyo Dome, she's been listening to Captain's solo "One Chance!" endlessly.  Then she felt like singing the song while playing guitar on her own and she's wondering if she should ( Read more... )

WUS

Last night Captain answered some questions about HERO 2, and one of which is exactly what most fans have been wondering about, kind of a hot topic  :P  So I thought I'd share his answer with you.

*This is very roughly translated.  And I'm not 100% sure about my translation, so as always plz feel free to correct any mistranslation you find :P*

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Rough translation of WUS on last Friday (kindly translated from Chinese tweets on weibo by guavasnowegg <333)

This episode is mainly about the 50-single live performance on SMAPxSMAP on 9/9.
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1)  Translation of WUS (2013.08.02)

(Note :  Only one question translated, not the whole episode.  And as usual, I did it pretty roughly & quickly for a few other friends, so there could be some mistranslation.  :P)

(source : http://www.tfm.co.jp/what-s/index.php?itemid=68453)

Behind the scene story about Dandy House cm
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Here's a little sth. sweet to share about our beloved Captain.  He really never failed to amaze me with how such a yasashii person he is in real life.  ♥   There're 2 stories, the first one is an article about how he addressed school bullying problem on WUS.  Another one is about how he kindly treated WUS staff when she unexpectedly caused an ( Read more... )

On What's Up SMAP last Friday, Captain mentioned how many listeners sent a fax asking him to do several kinds of ranking, three of which are:

1) Favorite SMAP's songs at Karaoke
2) Most favorite Captain's drama role
3) What we like best about each SMAP member (Captain was hilarious again here by saying noone will send an answer for this poll...LOL)

BTW ( Read more... )