Introduction to the J family

It is the dream factory of Asia's most awesome young boys - Johnny's Japan. It almost dominates the Japanese entertainment industry. It is a household name in Japan. Its popularity can be described as incredible. It also has considerable influence and a large number of crazy fans in neighboring countries. For example, Takuya Kimura, the spokesperson for Japanese dramas, Hideaki Takizawa, the first-generation beauty, Tomohisa Yamashita of the J family and Japan, and Toma Ikuta, the first actor of the new generation of the J family. Kamenashi Kazuya, who represents the sexy and charming character in KAT-TUN, and Jin Akanishi, who is known as the sexiest man in Japan. There are also Ryo Nishikido, who is famous for his sharp tongue, and Yuya Tegoshi, who is cute but not malicious. The handsome and cute Ryosuke Yamada, Yuxiang Nakajima, and Yuri Chinen in Hey!Say!JUMP are all created by Johnny's.

[Edit this paragraph] The J family was established

On a rainy day in 1962, because there was no way to practice baseball, the founder of Johnny’s, Mr. Kitagawa Johnny, took Several players went to the theater to watch a movie --- "West Side Story." After watching it, Kitagawa asked the players: "Do you want to be like them?" After that, four people formed Johnny's first group - "Johnny's" and created the original history of Johnny's...< /p>

[Edit this paragraph] History of the J family

In 1967, "Philips" was formed by "Hokugongji, Takashi Kiyoyama, Toshio Eki, and Masao Orikata".

The "Four Leaves" formed in 1968 are more like the prototype of modern Johnny's. At that time, the idol performed a backflip, which caused quite a big topic.

In the 1970s, Kitagawa founded Johnny & Associates.

In 1972, Johnny's launched the first male idol of Johnny's - "Go Hiromi" (who has withdrawn, but is still active in the Japanese entertainment industry and officially retired from the entertainment industry in recent years)

Of course, Johnny's also launched many popular idols in the 1970s. People such as "Hiroyuki Sanada, Noguchi Noguchi, Hideki Saijo, Kenji Sawada" and others are all representative artists of the contemporary era.

In 1980, the "Tahara Trio" composed of "Kondo Masahiko, Nomura Yoshio, and Tahara Toshihiko" was launched. Among them, only Kondo Masahiko remains in Johnny's development, and the other two have withdrawn. (After Nomura quit, he formed a group of his own - "The Goodbye"; and Tahara Toshihiko, who debuted with the single "Sad Date", quit because of his relationship with Nakayama Miho and friction with the company. However, Then he was completely banned by Johnny's; Kondo Masahiko, who stayed at Johnny's, played "Third Years Class B Kinpachi-sensei" with Mr. Tahara in 1979, and in 1980 with "Snicka Blues" He debuted as a single and had a triangular scandal with Akina Nakamori and Seiko Matsuda (Toshihiko Tahara: born in 1961. Masahiko Kondo: born on July 19, 1964). In 1981, Johnny was released. The "Young Team" composed of "Higashiyama Noriyuki, Uekusa Katsuhide, and Nishikori Kazuki" was based on the performance of the movie. It was not released until December 1985. A single "Masked Dance". Among them, Higashiyama Noriyuki and Makino Riho were engaged, but they broke up due to the company's intervention. Currently, only Nishikori is married to (Kimichi) Chieko and has two children. Children (eldest son: Nishikori Yuta. Eldest daughter: Nishikori ERIKA) (Nishikori Kazuki: May 22, 1965. Type O. Born in Tokyo? Higashiyama Noriyuki: September 30, 1966. A Type. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture? Katsuhide Uekusa: July 24, 1966. Type O. Born in Chiba Prefecture)

In 1982, Johnny launched another pill by "Masahiro Motoki. Toshikazu Fukawa." Yuying formed the "Shibu Persimmon Team" and released their first single - "NAI? NAI16". In that year, they won almost all kinds of new artist awards in Japan, including Masahiro Motoki. Wakamaru Yuei requested a solo career, so the group disbanded on November 2, 1988. After 1982, Johnny selected "Okada Kenichi" from the first open recruitment of artists. Kazuya Takahashi and Shoji Narita formed the "Tokyo Men's Group", and in 1985 they added a new member, "Maeda Koyo", which was later renamed the "Old Douhu Group".

The four released their first single - "DAYBREAK" in August 1988. The regiment has now been disbanded.

Of course, in 1985, Johnny's had more than just male fighting groups active. In this year, they also launched the "Young Ninja" composed of six people including "Naoto Endo, Wataru Nakamura, Shinya Masaki, Yasuya Shiga, Chao Yanagisawa, and Nobu Takagi". However, one of the members, "Wataru Nakamura", suddenly switched to another group, "CHA-CHA", so Johnny added a new member "Eiji Yoshikawa" to the group, and in 1990 he changed his name to "Ninja". Currently, only four members including "Masaki Shinya, Takagi Nobuhide, Endo Naoto, and Yanagisawa Chao" remain in Johnny's to develop their personal activities.

In April 1987, Johnny formed "GENJI" by "Kazuki Morohoshi, Junichi Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Sato, Atsuki Sato, and Akira Akasaka". In June, the two people "Utsumi Koji and Osawa Shuio" who originally belonged to "EAGLES" were formed into "Hikari". Then the two groups "GENJI" and "Light" were merged into "Light GENJI", and their first single "STAR LIGHT" was released on August 19. But later, because Osawa Shusheng wanted to develop behind the scenes, Morohoshi and Misawa hoped to go solo. Therefore, after the two quit, Hikaru Genji changed its name to "Hikaru Genji Super5" in 1995. (Currently, the stars will still perform some sporadic performances)

In November 1987, when Genji released its first single "Glass Youth", Genji arranged for 10 skateboarders Jr., known as "Skateboard Boy." Six people were selected from among them, including "Matsuyuki Mori, Masahiro Nakai, Takuya Kimura, Shingo Katori, Goro Inagaki, and Tsuyoshi Kusanagi" to form SMAP, so the skateboard boy can be said to be the prototype of SMAP. Although they debuted as a group of six, a regrettable thing happened in 1995... One of the members, Mori Zeyuki, was addicted to racing, so he insisted on joining the racing industry to fulfill his dream of racing. He announced his retirement on May 27, 1995 and said goodbye to his fans!

After the single "Glass Youth" successfully made "Skateboarder" popular, in 1988 " When "Hikari Genji" released the single "Sword Dance", Genji recruited a dozen Jr. who used Western swords to dance and sing along. They were commonly known as the "Taike School". During the Heike faction period, we can see several familiar faces...TOKIO's captain - "Jojima Shigeru" and "Kunibu Taichi" who also belongs to TOKIO. V6's captain - "Sakamoto Masayuki" is also the first member of the Heike faction member, and what everyone can’t imagine is that... Sorimachi Takashi, who is now active in the Japanese television industry, was also a member of the Heike faction at that time!

In 1991, Johnny launched another " TOKIO is composed of five people: Kei Kojima, Masahiro Matsuoka, Shigeru Jojima, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, and Taichi Kokubu. But in fact, everyone will find it very strange... Why is it "Kei Kojima"? Who is Kei Kojima? Why is there no Tomoya Nagase? When TOKIO was first formed, there was indeed no Tomoya Nagase, but Kei Kojima. That's right . But I don't know why they suddenly changed their mind... The new member vocalist "Nagase Tomoya" suddenly appeared in the air to replace the original Kojima Kei. (What happened to the island...no one seems to know?! By the way...the island looks like a "fleshy" mountain pass~~~laugh~~~)

< p> In 1991, you can see two young boys in the "Light Genji" program. That's right~~~They are the "Kansai Boys" composed of "Koichi Domoto and Tsuyoshi Domoto". They also officially announced their group name "KinKi Kids" at the SMAP concert on January 1, 1993. They also released their first singles "Glass Boy" and "No. 1" on July 21, 1997. An album "A ALBUM". These two albums won the double championship in Japan's credibility rankings and set many records in Japan (by the way: you can see 3 K's in the name KinKi Kids! This. The three K's are all capitalized! Please stop writing them in lowercase! That's why KinKi's Fan Club is called "Ki3"!)

At the end of 1995, Johnny established "V6" ", but the "mysterious case" that happened to TOKIO happened to V6 again.

Because what is certain is that the list of V6 Hatsumichi originally included six people including "Ohara Yuki, Hara Tomohiro, Morita Tsuyoshi, Sakamoto Masayuki, Miyake Ken, and Inohara Yoshihiko". However, at the beginning, the original two people on the list, "Ohara Yuki and Hara Chihiro", were unexpectedly removed from the list, and the two vacancies were replaced by "Nagano Hiroshi" and "Okada Junichi" who had just joined Johnny's. There are rumors that the Okada family used money to buy connections so that he could replace Yuki Obara and become a member of V6. But there is also another rumor that Yuki Obara was replaced by Johnny because of his bad attitude towards fans. No matter what the truth is, please fans (weird!|||'-') stop arguing about this matter! And V6 and others are also divided into two groups: the older group The 20th Century is composed of "Masayuki Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nagano, and Yoshihiko Inohara". The coming century of the junior group is composed of "Ken Miyake, Tsuyoshi Morita, and Junichi Okada".

On November 3, 1999, Johnny launched a new generation of five-member group "Arashi", whose members are "Matsumoto Jun, Sakurai Sho, Aiba Masaki, Ninomiya Kazuya and Ohno Satoshi" ".The first single "ARASHI" and the first single "Arashi No. 1" released by the five people both won the first place in the charts that week, and both exceeded one million.

2001 Year... At Jr.'s tour concert, it was officially announced that Takizawa Hideaki Imai Tsubasa officially debuted. The group name is ''Tacky&Tsubasa''

The J family had a male and female group in the 1960s. Later, for some reason, the J family only trained boys

First generation idol:

Johnny's

Debuted in 1962

Aoi Teruhiko

Nagami Iino

Hiromi Mako

Ryo Nakatani

Four Leaves

Hokugong Times

Takashi Aoyama

Toshio Eki

Masao Orishige

Hiromi Goguo

(Search results: A super idol singer in the 1970s, a contemporary of Seiko Matsuda...)

Team Shibugaki

Yuhide Marumaru

Toshikazu Fukawa

Ben Masahiro Mu

THE GOOD-BYE

Yoshio Nomura

Yasuhisa Soga

Hachiro Kaga

Defender Koichi

Tahara Masahiko Kondo Masahiko

Debuted in 1982, super idol

Male Douhu Group

(1985-1994)

Kenichi Okamoto

Kazuya Takahashi

Koyo Maeda

Shoji Narita

Hikaru GENJI ( Hikaru Genji)

(1987-1995)

Utsumi Koji

Osawa Shuo

Morohoshi Katsumi

Junichi Yamamoto

Akira Akasaka

Atsuki Sato

Hiroyuki Sato

Ninja

(1985-1995 )

Yanagisawa Chao

Masaki Shinya

Endo Naoto

Takagi Nobuhide

Shiga Taishin

Eiji Furukawa

Junior Team

(しょうねんたい)

(Debuted in 1982)

Katsuhide Uekusa, Nishiki Zhi Yiqing, Dongshan Ji.

It was a hit, and the Little Tigers had many imitators and covers of the songs of the Youth League.

Most of the above are disbanded groups

Current groups and individual artists:

Individual artists

Kondo Masahiko

< p> Kenichi Okamoto: former member of the male fighting group

Koji Utsumi: member of Maeko GENJI

Akira Akasaka: member of Maeko GENJI

Atsuki Sato :Maeko GENJI member

Kobayashi Koichi

Kokubu Hiroshi

Sano Mizuki

Hasegawa Jun

Shunsuke Kazama

Ryoka Higashishin

Kotaro Takeuchi

Mackey

Toma Ikuta

[edit This paragraph] Current combination of J family

SMAP

(1988-)

Masahiro Nakai (captain)

Takuya Kimura< /p>

Inagaki Goro

Kusanagi Tsuyoshi

Katori Shingo

Japan’s chief national idol, known as Tiandan, the most popular group of the J family , the comprehensive development of performing arts, Kimura, the king of Japanese dramas, and the members of the group who have fully developed in various fields. Debuted in 1988, Mori Zeyuki quit in 1996 and turned to the racing industry

TOKIO (Tokyo Boys)

(1994-)

Shigeru Jojima (Captain)

Yamaguchi Tatsuya

Kokubu Taichi

Matsuoka Masahiro

Nagase Tomoya

The music is more rock-oriented In the group, Nagase is one of the few tough idols in the J family. The comments I saw back then (2000) were that, as a group that inherited the past and ushered in the future, SMAP was still at its peak, KINKI was a rising star, and TOKIO was in an embarrassing situation.

V6

(1995-)

Sakamoto Masayuki

Nagano Hiroshi

Inohara Yoshihiko< /p>

Tsuyoshi Morita

Ken Miyake

Junichi Okada

He was also favored back then, but it was a pity that Tsuyoshi Morita ("The Moon Gatherer" After the scandal, Junichi Okada is performing more. In particular, V6 came to Shanghai for promotions in 2002 or 2003.

KinKiKids (Kinki Kids)

(1997-)

Koichi Domoto

Tsuyoshi Domoto

Formed in 1992 and officially debuted in 1997. The two developed in a relatively balanced way. "Disqualified in the World" was almost a stunning performance, and then KK's trilogy established its position in the hearts of fans. The multi-faceted management of Japanese dramas, songs, program hosts, and stage plays has ensured KK's long-term front-line support from the initial sales of 1 million to 250,000 now. Status. Koichi's stage play and Gang's acting skills are all well-received, and DB is also the most famous and interesting fairy tale group in the J family. > It is worth mentioning that before KK, the J family did not have such an obvious ambiguous line. After KK, there was talk of official matches, and later TT, N Group, Guan 8, and KT all had official matches. KK is a new selling point business line of the J family, started by them

Arashi

(1999-)

Satoshi Ohno

<. p> Sho Sakurai

Masaki Aiba

Kazuya Ninomiya

Jun Matsumoto

Sold millions of copies immediately after his debut The popular group is now developing relatively evenly. Its members often appear in many Japanese dramas, and Ninomiya Kazu is also considered to be one of the J family's acting sect. The A group has no fixed CP, and the trend of random climbing started here.

Arashi became very popular in 2008, and the members started an Asian tour starting from the National Arena. The J family was the first to come to Shanghai for a concert, and leader Ohno Satoshi also held a painting and clay sculpture exhibition, and the Japanese ORICON list at the end of the year Arashi also occupied the first, second and tenth places. The first and second places were exclusive for 19 years. Now Arashi has three fixed programs every week, plus the members' TV series and their own activities, the exposure rate is quite high. In 2009, Arashi celebrated the 10th anniversary of their debut. They will perform a 3-day performance at the National Arena and a commemorative tour of the Five Eggs Tour. They will perform 3 consecutive days of performances at the National Arena, which is the first time in Japanese history.

Tackey&Tsubasa (Taki and Tsubasa)

(2002-)

Takizawa Hideaki

Imai Tsubasa

He began to appear in Japanese dramas in 1997. TAKKI was once at the height of his popularity. "The Witch's Condition" became a hit in Japan. He was hailed as Kimura's successor and had a strong reputation for debut. Compared with him, Tsubasa back then was almost unknown. For a long time After waiting, the TT group finally debuted with a CD in 2002. The debut ended dismally. It must be said that the agency made a mistake and delayed the best period. TAKKI no longer has the absolute advantage it had back then. Tsubasa has worked hard in recent years and gradually improved, and her dancing skills have been recognized. TAKKI's generation of DB is still an important repertoire in the J family's stage plays.

News

(2003-)

Tomohisa Yamashita

Keiichiro Koyama

Ryo Nishikido

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Uuchi Hiroki

Kato Nariyoshi

Kusano Hironori

Masuda Takahisa

Tegoshi Yuya

NEWS was formed on September 14, 2003, and officially debuted on May 12, 2004 with the release of their first single "Hope~Yell~". It topped Oricon on the first day of release. In the first week, they even achieved sales of 270,000 copies, easily taking the No. 1 spot on the Oricon Singles Chart in the first week, and becoming the 10th artist group in history to win the No. 1 single in the first week of their debut.

NEWS has an ambiguous status and was once a group that gathered a lot of resentment. Keiichiro Koyama is the MC of the group, Tomohisa Yamashita is the leader of the group, and Ryo Nishikido is the underground boss of the group. Kusano is the vocalist of Tegoshi, and Ryouchi is the official partner of NEWS and Guan 8***. On May 1, 2006, due to underage drinking of two members, Hiroyuki Uchi and Hiroyuki Kusano, the agency decided to suspend NEWS group activities during the year based on joint and several liability. On December 31 of the same year, they officially returned to perform at the New Year's Eve concert held at J's house, and fully launched group performance activities. On January 9, 2008, they performed at the Tokyo Dome for the first time, fulfilling a wish that members had been looking forward to for several years. From December 30, 2008 to January 1, 2009, NEWS will hold a New Year's Eve concert at the Tokyo Dome during the three days of the end of the year and the beginning of the new year. This is also the third group after X-JAPAN and Kinki kids to hold a solo New Year’s Eve Live at the Tokyo Dome.

Tegomass, a limited group within the NEWS group, is composed of Yuya Tegoshi and Takahisa Masuda. They debuted in Sweden on November 14, 2006 and released the English version of their debut single "Miso Soup". They returned to Japan on December 20 of the same year. Three years after forming, they released their first album "テゴマスのうた". There is also the highly popular Yamashita Tomohisa, who was once called a beautiful boy like a flower. He was extremely popular among his peers and was also deeply loved by his seniors.

In 2005, she starred in "Dragon Sakura" with high ratings, and she also starred in a series of TV series such as "Wild Boar Makeover", "Scam Hunter", "The Proposal" and "Code Blue", which all achieved high ratings, and her acting skills are recognized by everyone. And is known as "Kimura's successor"

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Sekiジャニ∞

(2004—)

Murakami Shingo< /p>

Yu Yokoyama

Subaru Shibuya

Ryo Nishikido

Hiroki Uchi

Shodai Yasuda

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Maruyama Ryuhei

Okura Tadayoshi

Kansai style, a rare combination of J family with more traditional music lines. I personally love this style of music, but unfortunately I guess Not a popular TYPE, LEADER Yokoyama Yu. Recently, life has been difficult due to the fact that Uchibo Gui was put in cold storage. (Suddenly discovering that Subaru was once from the TT generation... Zaimo)

KAT-TUN

(2001-)

Kamenashi Kazuya

Jin Akanishi

Junnosuke Taguchi

Sei Tanaka

Ryuya Ueda

Yuichi Nakamaru

KAT -TUN was formed in March 2001 and debuted in early April of the same year. Five years after forming the group, on March 22, 2006, all members announced their official debut after all members turned 20 years old. This also broke the 5-year wait for the senior group SMAP. KinKiKids waited 5 years and 11 months to debut. Their debut single "Real Face" sold approximately 1.04 million copies and won the Oricon annual crown as the only million-selling single in 2006. The group name "KAT-TUN" means "Cartoon" and "Victory" (the Japanese sound of KAT-TUN is the same as "Victory") and is composed of the initial letters of the last names of the six members. The two most popular members of the team after "Yakuza II", Jin Akanishi's spring "ANEGO" is very popular, Kamenashi Kazuya's "Only Ai" (the third generation of the J family) and the currently filming "Wild Boar" are both A highly anticipated topical drama. In particular, the theme song of "Wild Boar" sold more than 1 million copies within one month of its release, and was called the "Monster Disc" by the public. JR, the most anticipated debut, debuted in March 2006 with the debut single "real" Face" sold millions of copies, and the album and concert DVD released on the day of their debut even won five crowns in one fell swoop. Popularity cannot be ignored. As of the end of April 2009. Every single of KAT-TUN. album. After the concert DVD was released, it ranked first on the Oricon chart. Currently hosting a show titled , 6 will hold concerts at the Tokyo Dome for 8 consecutive days in May, and will add 2 more shows for a total of 10 performances. This is An unprecedented feat in Japanese history.

Hey!Say!Jump

(2007-)

Hey!Say!7：

Yuxiang Nakajima

Ryosuke Yamada

Yuuri Chinen

Ryutaro Morimoto

Keito Okamoto

Hey!Say!Best:

Arioka Daiki

Takagi Yuya

Ino Kei

Yabo Kota

Yaotome Hikari

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Hey!Say!JUMP The group name JUMP comes from the acronym of Johnnys' Ultra Music Power. From the name, you can feel the infinite vitality of Heisei.

The youngest Ryutaro Morimoto was only in the third grade of elementary school when he joined the group. He debuted as a support group for the Volleyball World Cup in 2007. The album "Ultra Music Power" was released on November 14, 2007 to great acclaim. It ranked first in ORICON and was held at the Tokyo Dome for 38 days. Concert, audience of 55,000 people

Nakayama Yuma with B.I.Shadow (Nakajima Kento Kikuchi Fuma Kochi Yugo Matsumura Hokuto Takahata Misaki resigned from the club on May 28 for unknown reasons)

NYC BOYS: A limited group formed for the sake of response

N: Nakayama Yuma (なかやまゆうま) Nakayama Yuma

Y: Yamada Ryosuke (やまだ りょうすけ) Yamada Ryosuke

C: Chinen Yuuri (ちねんゆうり) Chinen Yuuri

boys: B.I.Shadow

JR, undebuted group

Kanto:

A.B.C-Z: Hashimoto Yoshiaki, Totsuka Shota River, Ikuto Tsukata Rakuichi, Goseki Koichi

Kiz-My-Ft2: Yoko Shitou Kabuta Suke Kitayama Hiromitsu Chiga Kenaga Tamamori Yuta Nikaido Takaji

Miyata Toshiya

Hip Hop Jump: Tanaka Itsuki (the younger brother of KAT-TUN "Tanaka Sei") Morita Miyuto Hagiya Keigo

カミュー?ケイド、ルイス?ジェシー

TARGET: Takada Sho Okawa Keigo Masuda Ryo

Kansai:

Dance:

MA: Shingo Machida, Mikka Tsuyoshi Yoshiya, Asoyuki

MAD: Noda Yuya Takeuchi Kotaro Koshioka Yuki Matsuzaki Yusuke Fukuda Yuuta Tatsumi Yudai< /p>

Yukihiro Kato, Tsuyoshi Eda, Hiroshi Maeda, T.J., Yukio Matsumoto, Ryota Yamamoto, Ryota Lin, Shota Yu, Ikeda

MADE: Ryuusei Imai, Fukuji Hahamitsu, Shinki Takahashi, Ryuyama Shita Takumi, Akiyama, Oga Tooka Kensho

Jr.BOYS: Takino Yuryu Oki Naoya Omori Hayabusa Moriya Ryosuke Inami Yugo Sato Shun Kanda Kensei

Anton Shinmaruyama Chio Ito Takumi

< p> Mis Snow Man (Blue Sky): Sanada Yuma Nozawa Yuki Iwamoto Teru Fukasawa Tatsuya Watanabe Shota Sakuma Daisuke Miyakan Ryota Onodera Kazuki Abe Ryohei

BAND: Question?: Ishigaki Daisuke Fujiiekazu Yimimura Ojiro Yodogawa Yuhiro Aikano

FIVE: Nakaegawa Rikiya, Kamisato Ryota, Makino Koji, Ishigaki Daisuke

Other JR:

Kanto: Toma Ikuta, Shunsuke Hasegawa, Junyama Shita, Yuta Uekusa, Shoao (son of "Katsuhide Uekusa" of the youth team), Shintaro Morimoto, Taiga Kyomoto (younger brother of "Hey! Say! Jump" Ryutaro Morimoto)

Kansai: Muro Ryuuki Muro Ryuta Muro Shoya (three brothers) Nakata Ochi Hamada Takahiro Ito Masashiki Hamanaka Bunichi Kikuoka Masazhan Yamazaki Kunta Chisaki Ryota Nakayama Yuma

Limited : Dancing Crown: Yara Tomo Yukihama Chugoku Itsukata Rakuichi Yamamoto Ryota Chiga Takenaga

The development history of the J family (to 2001)

On a rainy day in 1962, Since there was no way to practice baseball, Johnny Kitagawa, the founder of Johnny's, took several players to the theater to watch the movie "West Side Story". After watching the movie, Kitagawa asked the players: "Do you want to be like them?" Johnny's first group "Johnny's" was formed by four people and created the original history of Johnny's...

In 1967, it was formed by "Kita Koji Kiyoyama"

Takashi, Toshio Eki, and Masao Orikata formed "Philips".

The "Four Leaves" formed in 1968 were more like the prototype of modern Johnny's. At that time, the idol performed a backflip, causing quite a stir. A big topic.

In the 1970s, Kitagawa founded Johnny & Associates.

In 1972, Johnny launched the first male idol "Go Hiromi" (has quit, But still active in the Japanese entertainment industry)

Of course, Johnny also launched many popular idols in the 1970s, such as "Hiroyuki Sanada, Noguchi Noguchi, Hideki Saijo, Kenda Zeji" and others They are all slightly representative artists of the contemporary era.

In 1980, the "Tahara Trio" composed of "Mahihiko Kondo, Yoshio Nomura, and Toshihiko Tahara" was launched. Among them, only Masahiko Kondo remains. After developing in Johnny's, the other two have quit. (After Nomura quit, he formed a group "The Goodbye"; and Tahara Toshihiko, who debuted with the single "Sad Date", was in a relationship with Miho Nakayama. , had friction with the company and withdrew, but was immediately banned by Johnny's; Kondo Masahiko, who stayed at Johnny's, played the role of "Teacher Kinpachi, Class B of Three Years" with Mr. Tahara in 1979. He made his debut in 1980 with the single "Snicka Blues", and was involved in a scandal with Akina Nakamori and Seiko Matsuda.

In 1981, Johnny released the single "Higashiyama Noriyuki". The "Youth Team" was composed of Katsuhide Uekusa and Kazuki Nishikori. The Boys Team at that time was based on performing in movies and releasing videos. It was not until December 1985 that their first single "Fake" was released. "Noodle Dance". Among them, Noriyuki Higashiyama and Riho Makino were engaged, but they broke up due to the company's intervention. Currently, only Nishikori is married to Chieko (Kimichi) Guchi and has two children

< p> In 1982, Johnny launched the "Shibu Persimmon Team" composed of "Masahiro Motoki, Toshiro Fukawa and Yuhide Marumaru", and released their first single "NAI? NAI16". Winning various newcomer awards all over Japan. Later, due to Motoki Masahiro and Marumaru Yuei's request to go solo, the group was disbanded on November 2, 1988.

After 1982, Johnny's From the first open recruitment of artists, "Kenichi Okada, Kazuya Takahashi and Shoji Narita" were selected to form the "Tokyo Men's Group". In 1985, a new member "Maeda Kohiro" was added, and the name was later changed to "Tokyo Men's Group". The four of them released their first single "DAYBREAK" in August 1988. The group has now been disbanded.

Of course, in 1985, there were more than just male Douhu groups in Johnny's. Active. In this year, they also launched "Young Ninja" composed of six people including "Naoto Endo, Wataru Nakamura, Shinya Masaki, Yasuya Shiga, Chao Yanagisawa, and Nobu Takagi". However, the members "Wataru Nakamura" in the group suddenly jumped to another group "CHA-CHA", so Johnny added a new member "Eiji Yoshikawa" to it, and changed its name to "Ninja" in 1990. The current members Only four people including "Masaki Shinya, Takagi Nobuhide, Endo Naoto, and Yanagisawa Chao" remained in Johnny's to develop personal activities.

In April 1987, Johnny's transferred "Morohoshi Kazuki and Yamamoto Junichi" Hiroyuki Sato, Atsuki Sato, and Akira Akasaka formed "GENJI". In June, they formed "Hikari" with "Utsumi Koji and Osawa Shuio" who originally belonged to "EAGLES". Then "GENJI" was formed. The two groups "Hikari" and "Hikari" merged into "Hikari GENJI" and released their first single "STAR LIGHT" on August 19. However, due to Osawa Shuo's desire to develop behind the scenes, Morohoshi and Misawa hoped Able to fly solo, so after the two quit, Hikari GENJI changed its name to "Hikari GENJI SUPER5" in 1995. (Currently, the stars will still do some sporadic performances)

In November 1987, Hikari GENJI GENJI released its first single "Glass Youth". At that time, Genji arranged for 10 skateboarders Jr. to be called "Skateboard Boys". Among them, they selected "Mariyuki Mori, Masahiro Nakai, and Takuya Kimura". Katori Shingo, Inagaki Goro, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi and other six people formed SMAP, so the skateboard boys can be said to be the prototype of SMAP. Although they debuted as six people, something regrettable happened in 1995 The thing... Senqie, one of the group members

Because he was addicted to racing, he insisted on joining the racing industry to fulfill his dream of racing. He announced his withdrawal on May 27, 1995 and said goodbye to his fans!

In the "Glass Youth" After the single successfully made "Skater Boy" popular, when "Light Genji" released the single "Sword Dance" in 1988, Johnny hired more than a dozen Jrs who danced with Western swords and sang the chorus. ., they are commonly known as the "Heike faction". During the Heike faction period, we can see several familiar faces... TOKIO's captain "Jojima Shigeru" and "Kokubu Taichi" who also belongs to TOKIO. V6's captain "Sakamoto Masayuki" He is also a member of the Heike faction. What everyone can’t imagine is that... Sorimachi Takashi, who is currently active in the Japanese television industry, was also a member of the Heike faction at that time!

In 1991, Jie Nice has launched TOKIO, which is composed of five people: "Kei Kojima, Masahiro Matsuoka, Shigeru Jojima, Tatsuya Yamaguchi, and Taichi Kokubu". But in fact, everyone will find it strange... Why "Kei Kojima"? Who is Keimaa Kojima? Why is there no Tomoya Nagase? When TOKIO was first formed, there was indeed no Tomoya Nagase, but Keimaa Kojima was right. But for some reason, he suddenly changed his mind... A new member suddenly landed in the air The lead singer "Nagaze Tomoya" replaced the original Kojima Kei.

In 1991, you can see two young boys in the "Hikari Genji" program. That's right~~~ They are the "Kansai Boys" composed of "Koichi Domoto and Tsuyoshi Domoto". They officially announced their group name "KinKi Kids" at the SMAP concert on January 1, 1993, and also officially announced their group name "KinKi Kids" on July 1, 1997. On the 21st, the first single "Glass Boy" and the "first album "A ALBUM" were released at the same time. These two albums won the double championship of Japan's credibility rankings and set many records in Japan.

At the end of 1995, Johnny established "V6", but the "mysterious case" that happened to TOKIO happened to V6 again. Because what is certain is that V6's first list was originally " Six people including Yuki Obara, Chihiro Hara, Tsuyoshi Morita, Masayuki Sakamoto, Takeru Miyake, and Yoshihiko Inohara. However, when they first started, the two people originally on the list, Yuki Obara and Chihiro Hara, were unexpectedly recruited. After being removed from the list, the two vacancies were replaced by "Hiroshi Nagano" and "Junichi Okada" who had just joined Johnny's. Rumor has it that the Okada family used money to buy connections so that he could replace Yuki Obara and become V6's leader. One member. But there is also another rumor that Yuki Obara was replaced by Johnny because of his bad attitude towards fans. Regardless of the truth, fans please speak up (blame) Weird! |||'-') Stop arguing about this! And V6 and the others were also divided into two groups: the 20th Century in the older group was composed of "Masayuki Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nagano, and Yoshihiko Inohara" Coming Century, a three-person youth group, is composed of "Ken Miyake, Tsuyoshi Morita, and Junichi Okada". Therefore, V6's concerts are divided into three versions: the first is all members of V6. The second type is only 20th. The third type is only Coming. Even singles and albums are like this!