Johnny's junior

We will introduce Johnny’s Junior. It was found in 1962 by the producer“Johnny kitagawa”.
Now there are many talents from 45-years-old to12-years-old.
Until,now 100peple have debut and 400 people are taking lessons.
Some of them are sons of famous people who are athlete ,actors, singers and so on.
The most famous groups are SMAP and Arashi. Both groups have 5people in them.
Other groups are , V6, ,Kinkikids ,Tokio, Kat-tun ,etc…
Some people are olso active alone while belonging to the groups,for example, Yamashita Tomohisa who is called Yama-p.
The leaders of Johnny’s are said to be Johnny’s favorite people.



Johnny Kitagawa
(http://www.tomocci.com/jannys/merry.jpg)



Tomohisa yamasita
(http://yamapii.jugem.jp/?page=2)





KANJYANI∞(eight)
(http://srd.yahoo.co.jp/IMG)



We will especially take up ARASHI from these. It’s a pop idol group of men which is composed of five people, Ohno Satoshi, Sakurai Sho, Aiba Masaki, Ninomiya Kazunari, and Matsumoto Jun. They are 26-29 years old. The leader of them is Ohno Satoshi. They were picked from popular high person in Johnny’s Jr. in 1990. They have many hit songs, for example, “A・RA・SHI”, "WISH", "One love", and so on.

Their popularity is remarkable. Recently, they collaborated with Disney Land. They sang there with Mickey Mouse. The ticket for one person surprisingly sold at more than two hundred thousand yen.
Johnny’s fans are ardent. There are few pictures of ARASHI on the Internet, especially on the official site ,there aren’t any pictures which can be posted without permission..

They are cool and talented, and play an active part widely, for instance, in movies, dramas, radios, commercials, or variety programs. They are popular with people from children to adults. Their popularity will continue for a long time.


ARASHI(http://blog.oricon.co.jp/a-newly-people/archive/1215/0)






LEFT:Kazunari Ninomiya(http://a14.chip.jp/arashigazou2/)
RIGHT:Sho Sakurai(http://arashi-love.bbs.fc2.com/)




These are goods of Johnny’s. There are various kinds of things. The most characteristic thing is a handmade round fan by thir fans. The formal size is decided and they make the fan to match it.






These are penlights to use in a concert. The name of the group is often carved on them.



There are so many goods.
What kind do you like?

We are not familiar with them yet.
Please tell us about them if you have information.



By Kana Wakuta, Junko Okai and Maho Furutani