Ueda injured during concert and KAT-TUN's 5 year anniversary plans announced

At the first concert in Taipei Ueda Tatsuya dislocated a toe when he failed to land on target after taking a jump off a 3 meter stage. He ended up being rushed to the hospital after he made it backstage and has promised to perform at the concert the following day and his solo concert over the weekend back in Japan.

This doesn't seem to be the news that Johnny's really wanted to have come out with the concert as plans for the concert tour next year, that will mark the group's 5th anniversary since debut. Like the current tour it will have two different legs. The first will be in Japan but Johnny's are looking at holding the concerts in industrial complexes instead of the usual concert venues. The second is an international tour with the locations of Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, China and Hawaii.

Tokyo Graph article. (English)

I have to say I feel really bad for Ueda as dislocating a toe must be rather painful and having to dance on it the day after, even if he takes it easy, is bound to hurt as well. But I guess after getting lucky after Kitayama from Kis-My-Ft2 fell off a stage at a concert earlier in the tour they had already used up their luck with him coming out of that uninjured.

And for the other news I have to say I'm a bit excited about this upcoming tour. Even if they aren't my favorite group I do like them enough to see about putting some money aside to see them in Hawaii. A part of that is honestly because I want to support Johnny's attempts at coming to the U.S. and it looks like they plan on using KAT-TUN and Akanishi Jin as the artists that will be their barometer of success in the States.

SMAP magazine and solo tour for Ueda

SMAP will be releasing a special one shot magazine on August 25th called Super-fashion & Music Assemble Photo-magazine. It will not only feature exclusives for the members of the group themselves but also of other celebrities the members will have conversations with.

Tokyo Graph article. (English)

Also Johnny's net has updates to confirm that Ueda Tatsuya will be having a solo tour beginning on the 4th of August and ending on October 3rd. The tour will be with the Junior band FiVe and the dates for the first few concerts do fall between concert dates for the World Tour leg of the summer KAT-TUN concert tour.


Then on just to mention something blog related I do have plans to get around to updating the look of this blog soon, as I have more time on my hands than I would like. So expect some little updates in the coming month as I update some things and add some others to make this blog a bit more useful for readers.