Josei Jisin – 2017 Aiba Masaki 30 Q&A

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Q1: What did you eat frequently in 2017?
A: Sweet. I eat a lot when drinking wine.

Q2: What did you drink frequently in 2017?
A: Coffee. Black one.

Q3: What do you buy unconsciously at supermarket?
A: Sweet (giggle).

Q4: What do you want now?
A: Massage chair.

Q5: What touched you most in 2017?
A: A movie about dog “My Wonderful Life”. I have had fed dog for a long period of time and I love dogs, I was full of tears when watching it.

Q6: What thing is left undone?
A: I want to do full marathon once.

Q7: What thing was tough in 2017?
A: Climbing Mt. Fuji during location filming in programme. Going downwards was the toughest. When I climbed up the mountain I had a motivation that “I definitely need to climb until the very top” so it was fine.

Q8: What thing are you obsessed with recently?
A: I look forward to the weekly manga magazine. Sounds like a kid, right? (giggle)

Q9: What is your favourite recently?
A: Pear of Ichikawa, Chiba.

Q10: What is your source of energy?
A: Sweet. I want to go to cake buffet (giggle).

Q11: What is your favourite interior?
A: The chair in kitchen is kawaii. It’s cylinder chair with beige check pattern. I make some snack in kitchen and eat them there. The snack I make most, recently my favourite is finely cut yellow pickled radish with natto.

Q12: What do you do in off-duty days?
A: I pass the day cozily. Taking rest is also important.

Q13: If you have one month break?
A: Because I have no idea where to go, perhaps just ride on a luxurious cruise and let me carry me to somewhere (giggle).

Q14: What thing is necessary to you now?
A: To keep calm (giggle).

Q15: What makes you have the awareness that you are in a unit?
A: I think as for the unit song of we three (with Ohno and Sakurai), the song is vivid, and I hope to make a performance that is beyond imagination too. The unit song of we two (with Ninomiya), it started with the idea that we want to dance, and we made a song which fit this idea.

Q16: Person impressive to you?
A: The athletes whom I met in Gutto-Sports (NHK).

Q17: Backstage story of Kouhaku that you could tell us now?
A: There were lots of surprise performance last year there were lots of things I also did not know. I worked on it in the mood of surprise (giggle).

Q18: Wording that influenced you?
A: I like the words of Mother Teresa, like “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love”.

Q19: If God says to you “I can make your one wish come true”?
A: I want to stay healthy. Indeed I am in good health.

Q20: What would you do in the morning of 1st Jan?
A: I shall go back my family home for greeting. I like the New Year dishes of my home with the rice cakes in it.

Q21: The greatest new year thus far?
A: The greatest new year is that Grandpa and Grandma and other relatives gather and have New Year dishes. Now there are also children of the relatives of my generation.

Q22: Do you wear new clothes in New Year?
A: Not clothes, I change my purse once every 2 – 3 years.

Q23: Senpai you met a lot this year?
A: Kinki Kids-san.

Q24: Kouhai you met a lot this year?
A: Should be Matsuzaki Yusuke.

Q25: What was Ninomiya-san in 2017.
A: This year he also ate a lot ramen (giggle). He definitely had it during the rehearsal of live. I feel relieved seeing Ninomiya-kun eating ramen.

Q26: What was Matsumoto-san in 2017.
A: We went shopping since tens of years. When we finished our work and there was some free time, then we went to buy clothes. “What about this one?” “It suits you” we said things like this, and it was fun.

Q27: What was Sakurai-san in 2017.
A: He was busy wasn’t he. 24HTV, Election, and TV drama. Really I saw him a lot on TV. Thanks for his hard work.

Q28: What was Ohno-san in 2017.
A: He didn’t quite go fishing. If he went fishing he would get great sunburn so I would know, this year there was no such talk as “did you go fishing?”. He should go more fishing, really.

Q29: Looking back ARASHI in 2017.
A: We had a fruitful year. I hope to work treasuring every single moment in the coming year as well.

Q30: Message to fan.
A: Thank you for your support in this year. Please also enjoy the coming year.

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thanks for reading :)