The NEWS members acted as the main hosts for ‘24時間テレビ 32 愛は地球を救う / 24 Hour Television 32 Love Saves the Earth’. After the broadcast, the group attended the press conference. It was their first time to have been hosts for such a large scale TV program. Yamashita Tomohisa (24) said “We would like to thank all the people who appeared in the program, ( Read more... )

It’s again time for the annual summer program ’24 Hour Television’. The program starts broadcasting today and will go on until tomorrow ( Read more... )

Hey! Say! JUMP member Yamada Ryosuke (16) will appear in the lead role of a special TV drama titled ‘左目探偵EYE / Hidari-me Tantei EYE [lit. ‘Left-eye Detective EYE]’ to be broadcast on October 3rd from 21:00 by Nippon TV. In the suspense/detective fiction drama he will play the role of a ‘boy detective’. He was quite ready to perform. “It’s a type of ( Read more... )

Late last week KAT-TUN held a concert in Hokkaido. Having finished the concert, they have completed this year’s entire tour ( Read more... )

Wed, August 26, 2009 (2:46am EDT)
As expected, the boy band Arashi dominated the charts this past week with their collection "All the BEST! 1999-2009." The album sold 753,000 copies, setting their own personal record for first-week sales.

The album also sets the record for opening week sales during the 2009 period. The previous highest was Mr. ( Read more... )

Every summer NEWS member Yamashita Tomohisa (Yama-P) seems to be busy filming dramas ( Read more... )

I just found a few new fancams here ~ http://www.youtube.com/user/youoy5671

Yamashita Tomohisa (Yama-P) sounded a bit tired in his diary.

“Since work for today started in the afternoon I was able to sleep well!
For lunch I ate somen [‘ソーメン; Noodles made of wheat flour and served cold/chilled].
The somen was good, but I wasn’t too sure
about the amount of ginger (laugh).
I wanted more!
I even thought of buying some and grinding ( Read more... )

NEWS members take turns writing a popular column where the subject matters are chosen by the fans ( Read more... )

Old news but, I thought I would share anyway ~~

This year the popular group KAT-TUN started their tour in Okinawa [the southernmost prefecture in Japan] and spent the whole summer gradually making their way north across the country. Tomorrow they will perform their final concert in the decidedly cooler lands of Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture ( Read more... )