Kawai Fumito injured

It has been announced that during PLAYZONE Kawai Fumito landed wrong and fractured a toe. He is currently on leave for the injury which is said will need surgery. They say he will be out for about a month, which means he will be out for the rest of the Aoyama shows of PLAYZONE.

Johnny's net message with a message from Kawai. (Japanese only.)


I hope he gets well soon and wish him luck on the surgery. I can't imagine A.B.C.-Z without him.

Aiba returns to work

It has been reported that Aiba Masaki has returned to work on July 5th after being hospitalized a few days prior. He showed up to filming for the VS Arashi program and while he was present did not participate in the physical games on the program.

Tokyo Graph article. (English)

I'm sure everyone is glad that he's doing much better and is taking things easy still. Arashi still has a busy year ahead of them, especially with a tour but it sounds like he'll do his best with making sure he doesn't push himself too much and I'm sure his fellow group members and staff members will be looking out for his safety too after this.

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.