Josei Jisin – 2017 Matsumoto Jun 30 Q&A

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Q1: What did you eat frequently in 2017?
A: Sushi.

Q2: What did you drink frequently in 2017?
A: Water.

Q3: What do you buy unconsciously at supermarket?
A: Ice.

Q4: What do you want now?
A: Earphones.

Q5: What touched you most in 2017?
A: Should be that I met Date Kimiko-san. It was the first time I met her in TV programme since her retirement. She is a very splendid person.

Q6: What thing was tough in 2017?
A: The heat in summer. I had to wear suit all the time for filming drama and it was tough.

Q7: What thing are you obsessed with recently?
A: Go to theatre. Recently, I watched the theatre “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” acted by (Ikuta) Toma and Suda Masaki-kun. Ogawa Eriko-san’s direction was very interesting.

Q8: What is your favourite recently?
A: Organic coffee. It’s delicious, I recommend it.

Q9: What is your source of energy?
A: Indeed water? No, should be our fans!

Q10: What make you relax?
A: When I am on the stretch mat. I do a lot of stretching during tour.

Q11: What is your favourite interior?
A: Recently, I bought paintings. My favourite is pencil sketching.

Q12: What do you do in off-duty days?
A: I like meeting people, so if time is allowed I shall meet my friends. Even I am asked suddenly I’ll go.

Q13: If you have one month break?
A: I’ll go overseas.

Q14: What country would you like to go?
A: As long as it’s overseas, anywhere is fine. Rather than resort, I prefer metropolitan.

Q15: What season do you like most?
A: Should be summer. Though I hate very hot days (giggle)

Q16: What person you couldn’t forget?
A: I immediately recall Ninagawa Yukio-san and Nakamura Kanzaburo-san. They are the “performers” I can’t forget even now.

Q17: What makes you have the awareness that you are in a unit?
A: Though in terms of awareness there is no change, the scenery I see certainly changes.

Q18: Person impressive to you?
A: Uzaki Ryudo-san. He is a very splendid person. He is with tender manner, but I can feel the passion in him.

Q19: Backstage story of Kouhaku that you could tell us now?
A: While our green room was beside TOKIO-nii-sans’ we all watched one TV. Such time was joyful.

Q20: Wording that influenced you?
A: Though I couldn’t recall any wording, Ninagawa Yukio-san’s existence means so much to me. He was a serious and tender person.

Q21: If God says to you “I can make your one wish come true”?
A: Environmental protection. I worried if the globe is fine.

Q22: What would you do in the morning of 1st Jan?
A: To prepare my drama filming. We shall start filming early in new year.

Q23: Senpai you met a lot this year?
A: Should be Nagase (Tomoya)-kun.

Q24: Kouhai you met a lot this year?
A: Sexy Zone isn’t it. We worked together during “ARASHI no WakuWaku Gakkou 2017”.

Q25: What was Ninomiya-san in 2017.
A: Recently, he watched various dance videos, it seemed that he is into dancing. In the future, I think he would have more dance performance.

Q26: What was Sakurai-san in 2017.
A: He worked as MC alone (not with ARASHI) for 24HTV, and hosted the music matsuri days ago, he is already a MC (giggle)

Q27: What was Aiba-san in 2017.
A: Though he seems busy for his many regular programmes, he is vivid. Aiba-kun in variety shows is really genki and high tension.

Q28: What was Ohno-san in 2017.
A: After his off duty time his skin turns very dark. I think he must have gone fishing and had a fruitful private time (giggle)

Q29: Looking back ARASHI in 2017.
A: No matter as group and as personal, we have done many various works. Every year we release album, and we are able to do live tour, being able to do such things is really splendid. I once again am grateful that we had passed a fruitful year.

Q30: Message to fan.
A: From now on we shall continue making good music, and perform good live, I hope to meet our fans in our good works. Let’s go accumulate good memory one by one!