Matsumoto Jun encourages Morisanchu's Oshima Miyuki for 24-Hour TV marathon

On August 10, comedian trio Morisanchu's Oshima Miyuki, who will be the charity runner for this year's '24-Hour Television 36 Ai wa Chikyuu wo Sukuu' (August 24th & 25th), held a public workout in Kanagawa. Matsumoto Jun of popular group Arashi came to encourage Oshima for the second time.


Oshima, who claims to be a big fan of Arashi, ran the last 4 km (about 2.5 mi) side-by-side with Matsumoto in the 36ºC (about 97ºF) heat. She revealed, "This training is like a dream. When we were running together, I was smiling from start to finish," and said, "I have enough spirit. I absolutely want to make the goal at Budokan."

This was the first day of Oshima's 2-day training camp. In the intense heat, she ran 7 km (about 4.3 mi) in the morning and 9 km (about 5.6 mi) in the afternoon. Matsumoto was surprised at Oshima's transformation, "In the past 3 months, she become a different person. Both her weight and her frame of mind, I can see that she's gradually improving in order to run the marathon." He also commented, "I can't imagine what Oshima-san will be like when she's done running."

When Oshima first received the offer, she weighed 88 kg (194 lbs) and aimed to get her weight down to 73 kg (160 lbs). With 2 weeks left until the marathon, she explained, "I was able to get my weight down close to the goal. My body has become light." She added, "This is the first time I've been so stoic. I want to be a little more lighter, and gain a little more physical strength. I want to shed at least 2 more kilograms."

'24-Hour Television' is held every summer and this is its 36th time. The charity marathon has been running since 1992. Arashi will serve as the main personality for their 2nd consecutive year.

Source & Image: Mantan Web

Arashi's Satoshi Ohno Stars in NTV's Drama SP "Kyou no hi wa Sayonara"

 

Arashi leader Satoshi Ohno will be playing the lead role in NTV 24 Jikan Terebi 36's drama SP "Kyou no hi wa Sayonara". After fellow members, Jun Matsumoto and Kazunari Ninomiya's appearance in 24 Jikan Terebi drama specials titled "Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru" in 2008 and "Kuruma Isu de Boku wa Sora wo Tobu" in 2012 respectively, it is Ohno's turn to star in one.
The story revolves around 29-year-old 'Kota' (Ohno) who was suddenly told that he has cancer. It will show how he faces the struggles of a patient who is in the verge of dying.
"Kyou no hi wa Sayonara" is based on Miyuki Kazuya's "Oozora e no Tabidachi Gan to Tatakai Nagara mo Yume Miteita Mirai" and will air on August 24 and 25.

Arashi’s Ohno Satoshi and Nara Yoshitomo collaborate to create “24Hour Television” T-Shirts

On May 23rd, it was revealed that Arashi’s Ohno Satoshi (31) attended an announcement conference for this year’s “24Hour Television 35 ‘Ai wa Chikyuu wo Sukuu’” (to be held on August 25th to the 26th) and announced his collaboration with artist Nara Yoshitomo (52) to create the design for the program’s charity T-shirts.

Regarding this big project, Ohno explained the T-shirt’s design with, “It’s simple. I think it would help build the future from the beginning.” On the back of the shirt, the theme for this year’s 24Hour Television, “Future”, is printed and is characterized by its bold strokes. Ohno, who wrote the character for “Future” in calligraphy, stated, “There was only one piece of paper left and I thought, ‘Let’s finalize it with this piece of paper’ and wrote the characters intuitively. I was happy with the final product. It’s great,” confidently speaking to the audience on the design. In addition, Ohno also revealed that the other members of Arashi also loved the design, gave positive feedback, and “wore it happily”.

Source: Yomiuri
Images: Mantan Web

Arashi 24/7 under observation

Arashi is chosen as the main personalities for NTV’s annual fundraising telethon, 24Hr TV. At the same time, the members are also busy in other projects like movies and dramas.

Amidst all of this, it seems their management agency is also keeping a very close watch on their talents…

“Matsumoto Jun is good friends with Oguri Shun, who is known for being a playboy. Because of this, the agency have told him to stop interacting with his good friend. Ninomiya Kazunari is also banned from going to drinking parties with his comedian friends. Ohno was told to be more careful after tabloids found out he was dating AV actresses.”

However, that doesn’t stop the men from selling close to 10 billion yen in merchandises this year. This is why J&A is even more severe towards them. Even though they gave them smart phones as presents, it seems that the agency also uses those smart phones to track their every move using a GPS app. This way, they know where the 5 guys are 24/7. And it seems that the guys know nothing about such a tactic.

With such a popular group, tabloids are keeping close tabs on the guys to see if they’ll slip up, but J&A might’ve gone too far with the GPS tracking.

Source: uso-ippai


p/s....J&A pls give them privacy...they not kids anymore which u can do things like what u did....n they need life too~~~

Arashi to be the main personality for this year’s “24-Hour Television”

On “Arashi ni Shiyagare SP” which was aired on January 1st, it was announced that Arashi will be the main personality for NTV’s “24-Hour Television” charity telethon this year.

Usually, the main personality for “24-Hour Television” is announced during spring or summer, but this year, Arashi members will start preparations for “24-Hour Television” on New Year’s Day for the support of the Tohoku earthquake disaster areas and toward their recovery.

On the show, Arashi members commented,

“The reason why we are making this announcement on the New Year’s Day is that we thought there is an important thing that we need to reflect upon once again, and we should not forget, especially on today, when we greet the New Year.” – Sakurai Sho

“On March 11th of last year, the great earthquake struck eastern Japan.  People in the disaster areas are working hard toward the recovery even at this moment.” – Aiba Masaki

“However, cold winter is still going on, and the brutalest season will come to the disaster areas soon. That is why we are starting the ‘24-Hour Television’ today.” – Matsumoto Jun

“We can not take back the past.  There is nothing we can do about the past, however, we still can make our future.  We would like to think not only about the disaster,  but also about the several problems that are happening currently in Japan, with everybody.” – Ninomiya Kazunari

“This will be the third time for us, Arashi, to take part as the main personality for ‘24-Hour Television’.  We will put all the effort into it by making good use of our experiences from the past!” – Ohno Satoshi

As Ohno mentioned, Arashi was the main personality for the “24-Hour Television” two previous times, in 2004 and in 2008, and this year will be their third time as the main personality for the program.

Source: TV LIFE

Image: Arashi ni Shiyagare official site