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【ARASHI PRESS CONFERENCE】[The summaries of their
interview] Ohno said “we are not breakup” I want to look back on myself”
On 2019th
January 27th , Idol grup under Johnny's &
Associates "Arashi" has announced to be on hiatus in 2020th .
Thid is the summary of the press conference.
Arashi, will going on hiatus on 2020th
Idol group “Arashi”
will suspend all of their activities on 2020th . on 27th they made the announcement on its fan club
site. Started from last year until this year Arashi has 5 big tour in Tokyo,
Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Sapporo with total 50 shows and 2375 million people.
Quoted from:
news.livedoor.com (quoted from here)
We, arashi did a
lot of discussion and decided to take a break from all of our activities as
Arashi on 2020th December 31. We think that this is a very
unfortunate and surprising news, but we want to talk about it well with our
fans who always support us more than anyone with decision we took.
Quoted from:
news.livedoor.com (quoted from here)
Comments on the press conference
(Ohno-kun)
Thank you for
gathering with sudden information, while you have busy schedule today. We also
sent comments to our fans before. And we decided to take a break from all our
activities as a group on December 31, 2020.
This is a very
difficult situation, but we want to say it personally and prepare it in this
place. I’m counting on you.
The reason for us inactivity
Ohno-san said
that "in June 2017 I and 4 other members gathered, talked about my
feelings and my thoughts. I said I wanted to end all of my activities as
"Arashi". As I thought, I told the other four members that I want to
live freely once, after that we made several discussions and the deadline was
set in 2020, and decided that Arashi will be going on hiatus. "
What kind of discussion? Where is it
approved?
In June 2017
after conveying my feelings to the other 4 members, I also met each of them and
listened to their opinions.
After that, the
five of us gathered, and even though we had discussed it several times, but in
the end we discussed it with the people at Jhonny's, in February 2018 we
discussed it, and since then we have continued to discuss it and in June 2018 I
concluded it. .
What do you mean by "Want to Live
Free", ?
Clearly, what I
want to do is not decided in myself, but about that “free life”, of course, I want to try to leave this world (entertainment
world), until now I want to see a scene that I have never seen, nor have I ever
experienced life As usual, until now, I was very interested in things like
that, even though there was nothing I wanted to do.
Then what about your position in Jhonny's
agency?
At the beginning
when I announced I wanted to stop all of Arashi's activities, I could not
finish the job without having to leave the office. When I was talking about it
it was a good idea to say that I was not at work, but even though I had not yet
discovered what I wanted to do, I think I will take a rest and think carefully.
Where did Ohno-san's thoughts come from?
About 3 years
ago, I felt that feeling and it became bigger and bigger now.
Did you feel it after the end of the performance in Hawaii?
"Since that
time, it has appeared in my feelings for a while"
"That
desire happened on the 10th anniversary and Arashi's 15th birthday, but I
didn't feel like I want to do it, at that time I didn't have that feeling, but
when I was in Hawaii, that desire appeared, step by step "
In 2021 Ohno-san will be take a break from
the entertainment world?
Satoshi Ohno:
Yes, it is true.
I want to try to stop and see the period in which I am improving.
Will you come back again from "take a
break"?
Until that time
I hadn't thought about it specifically, but after years passed along with
Arashi in 2020, I thought I'd take a short break and think about it at the
time, so now I don't know.
Actually, I
haven't decided yet. I am sorry.
Is it because you are tired, so you
decided to taking a break from the entertainment world?
I don't feel
tired. I thought it would be nice to see the world and see myself once. So I
don't feel tired.
Comments from Arashi members
Kazunari Ninomiya
yeah, it was a
shock. Because I never thought something like this would happen, when Ohno said
that, I was really surprised.
After everything
what we said, there were 4 or 6 people in this group, I think it is not Arashi.
We really
thought about that.
Arashi whom we
consider is a group that fights among world value standards called ARASHI
Therefore, if
it's not five, it can't be called Arashi. I think if not five members the shows
that we do can’t be 100% and because we respected the thoughts of our leaders,
this was a personal point of view that we had reached conclusions, but that was
how we decided to discuss it together.
Sakurai Sho
The next day I
ate yakiniku together with my friends, but then there was a message from Ohno
in the group email said "I have to talk". Because we have been
together for a long time, saying "I have to talk" after hearing the
contents of the story, I think this might be a more than usual discussion, I
interpreted it personally that it was an overflowing desire
At first I was
surprised, but I thought that it was difficult to determine Arashi's future
alone, and at the same time I thought that it was impossible to tie someone's
life to others' thoughts.
Why is that,
because we met in middle school, he is my very important friend who has been
together for 4 years, no matter how long, I feel I have to find the end point
to accept all, I think this moment will be part of me too.
Did Sakurai Kun try to stop him?
If it's called stopping
him, I don't think so. I thought at that moment that I had to understand Ohno
's thought, so then I had to find a lot of time to find the other 4 people' s
thoughts properly.
Jun Matsumoto
I always thought
that continuing group activities means that there was a strong volition of the
members, it was my first thought that grouping could be continued, so I told
you earlier, but we have lots of things when it is 10th anniversary Celebrating
by letting us did live at the National Stadium.
As long as we
have the opportunity to do things, what we will do next, I always come to discuss
with all the members about what will be done later, honestly ... I think that
is a difficult thing.
In a situation
like this, I really think that we will temporarily close the group in good
condition, and there are times when the story becomes part of the members. Even
though I didn't have anything to do specifically, so when I first heard our
leader's story, I wasn't surprised.
Aiba Masaki
When I first
heard the story of our leader, I was disappointed.
At that time I
was next to Sakurai-kun and I really felt disappointed.
I never thought
that such a life existed, Ah it's impossible, but even so, when I was hit with
such a reality, I prepared it at the beginning, because of that I thought it
would be difficult, "Arashi" lost one member, so we decided to accept
our leader's opinion and proceed to that point.
The discussion was carried out until
February
Of course we
need time for this, that is not a direct conclusion. It started from June 2017
until February last year, and we have discussed many times over several months.
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it's so sad that Arashi will be going on hiatus.
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