This week’s guests were Official HIGE DANdism,
Kamenashi Kazuya, Nogizaka46, and go!go!vanillas.

Official HIGE DANdism – No Doubt / Stand by You

Kamenashi Kazuya – Rain

Official HIGE DANdism – Pretender

Nogizaka46 – Sing Out!

go!go!vanillas – Paranormal Wander World

Hey, Arama Japan! It’s Friday, so it’s Open Post time! Feel free to chat with your fellow readers about whatever you like! Enjoy!

This week’s guests were Blouson Chiemi, Kamenashi Kazuya, [ALEXANDROS], Nishikawa Takanori, Last Idol, May J., and Demon Kakka.

Blouson Chiemi – #Enjoy Your Life

Kamenashi Kazuya – Rain

[ALEXANDROS] – Pray

Nishikawa Takanori – UNBROKEN (feat. Hotei Tomoyasu)

Last Idol – Otona Survivor

May J. duet with Demon Kakka – Ai ga Umareta Hi

Successful mama blogger and former Hula Hoop World Record Holder Nozomi Tsuji has started her official YouTube channel, aptly titled “Tsuji Channel”.

In her introductory video, the former idol explains how she enjoys watching YouTube with her children and wanted to take a shot at the medium following her success with blogging and on Instagram.

With her channel, she plans on sharing parts of herself in ways she has never before, focusing on her passions of DIY, her life as a mother of 4 children, makeup, cooking, and more.

Former AKB48 member Rina Kawaei (24) and actor Tomoki Hirose (32) have announced their marriage through the affiliated office, and the couple is expecting her first child within this year.

The couple met while co-starring in stage play “Karephone“, an adaptation of the manga of the same name to the mobile app “Palcy” that ran from October 4–21 last year.

We’re back with this week’s edition of Oricon Flashback! This is where we look back on what topped the charts this week 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 years ago. Think of it as a way to reminisce and learn about the past of Japanese music.

Warner Music Japan has uploaded a short version of the music video for Mariya Takeuchi‘s viral hit “Plastic Love“, 35 years after the song’s original release.

The song is from Takeuchi’s 1984 album “VARIETY“, and was one of the most successful albums of her career, reaching #1 on the Oricon album charts. An extended club mix of “Plastic Love” was released as a single on March 25, 1985, reaching #86 on the Oricon single charts.

In recent years, the song unexpectedly helped welcome a revived interest in the city pop genre internationally. The fan-uploaded audio video of “Plastic Love”—paired with the still image from her “Sweetest Music / Morning Glory” single—crept into YouTube recommendations of people worldwide, stacking up 24 million views by the time it was taken down late last year due to a copyright dispute with the photographer. This past week, the video was reinstated.

This new music video was directed by Kyoutaro Hayashi, who visualizes the world of “Plastic Love” with his own interpretation, celebrating the era the song is a product of.

The results of the annual “Favorite Johnny’s” ranking from Shukan Josei PRIME magazine is in! The number of survey participants has increased every year from 12,000 respondents in 2017, 20,000 in 2018 to 25,000 people for 2019.

The results this time has been particulary interesting, does this signal the rise of the “next generation” in Johnnys?

Check out the Top 30 list below along with some comments from the respondents!