Real Japonism

Time for another article about Arashi :) (The last one can be found here ) In this one, I'm gonna introduce each of the 5 members and tell you why they are so great :P Satoshi Ohno (One word to describe him: talented) Satoshi, the leader of Arashi, is an extremely talented guy. He is a real artist, as he can dance, sing, and draw exceptionally well. Despite his job as an idol, he had an exhibition of his art twice, across Japan and China. They all ended in success. His skill of dancing and singing are especially shown when he performs his solo in the concert, although you can see that clearly when he is performing with other members too :) What I think makes him attractive to the fans is the fact that he always looks so chilled, and doesn't seem passionate at all in what he's doing especially when on TV, but once he starts performing, you just cannot take your eye off him. (His famous episodes include him falling asleep while recording a TV show that was going to ...

This article will introduce a Japanese boys rock band, which has increased its popularity among young girls in the last few years. It's called "back number", and they are famous for their unique lyrics, which is, most of the time, referred to as being girly. It's written from the boy's point of view most of the time, and the boy that comes up are often quite pessimistic, to a point it's really cute to hear him think so negatively. (I've actually introduced them a little bit in the previous article about a movie called " Tomorrow I will date yesterday's you " Taken from their official website For example, let's take a look at the lyrics of "Takane no Hanako San". (Takane no Hana in Japanese means a woman who is very difficult for guys to reach, because of her status and appearance) The song starts off saying "I know I am only a friend of a friend of yours" yeah, pretty depressing. My favourite bit is when it...

In this article, I will be introducing a boys band, probably the most famous, popular and yes, the most mainstream band in Japan at the moment. They are called Arashi ( 嵐 ), meaning storm in Japanese. I am quite a fun of them myself, so I might end up talking a lot about them. Official off shot from their recent tour, "Are you happy?" From left, Masaki, Satoshi, Jun, Kazunari, Sho Arashi consists of 5 members, Satoshi, Sho, Masaki, Kazunari and Jun. The members are all unique, and there are lots to talk about all of them, but I am planning to focus on them individually in a different article, just because I know it’s gonna be too long otherwise. So, to begin with, their brief history. In 1999, they hold a press conference in Hawaii, confirming their debut. They had all belonged to the agency called “Johnny’s & Associates”, famous for having a lot of handsome and popular boys belonging to it. Out of many boys who belonged to Johnny’s they were chosen to ...

If you have seen the movie, "Your name", which was released last year and was such a huge thing not limited to Japan but also in some other countries, you might have of the band, "Radwimps". I's a Japanese rock band consisting of 4 members, and all the songs used in "Your name" were created and recorded by them. The songs used in the movie were all amazing, and exactly matching each scenes of "Your name", Radwimps did not take long to be known by the public, especially young people.  From the official website. From the right, Yojiro(vocal), Akira(guitar), Yusuke(bass) This is the song which was used in the movie, Zen Zen Zense (前前前世) . Zense in Japanese means the life before we were born, like the idea of reincarnation, so he sings how he had been looking for the girl before he was even born. There's also an English version of all the songs from Your name, which you might wanna try listening to too :) However, the songs...