Arashi

ARASHI 嵐
Origin	Japan
Genres	Japanese pop R&B Bubblegum pop
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Pony Canyon (1999–2001) J Storm (2002–present)
Website	J Storm
Members
Masaki Aiba Jun Matsumoto Kazunari Ninomiya Satoshi Ohno Sho Sakurai

ARASHI (嵐 in Japanese text, meaning Storm) is a five-member Japanese boy band. They made their debut on September 15, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi on a cruise boat. They come from the famous Johnny's Entertainment production group. Their first single was “A・RA・SHI”. In October 2008 they released the single "Beautiful Days" from a TV drama which stars one member, Kazunari Ninomiya. In November 2008 the song topped music charts in Japan. They appear Arasinisshiyagare. It is very famous TV show. ARASHI have released 39 CDs. 35 of 39 CDs reached first place in Oricon chart. The CD which sold most in the ARASHI is A・RA・SHI of first single. There is 970,000 sales number of that.

Members

Satoshi Ohno(Nov.26.1980)

He is leader in Arashi. He is good at singing. He has talent of the art.

Sho Sakurai(Jan.25.1982)

He is good at Rap. He is also a newscaster. For example News ZERO.

Masaki Aiba(Dec.24.1982)

He is not only idol but also talent. He often performs on variety programs. For example Shimura Doubutsuen

Jun Matsumoto(Aug.30.1983)

He has appeared on many famous TV dramas. For exmple hanayori dango and gokusen.

Kazunari Ninomiya(Jun.17.1983)

He is good at acting. He has been acted for Hollywood movie 硫黄島からの手紙

Representative musics of Released CDs (singles)

• A-RA-SHI (1999)
• PIKA**NCHI DOUBLE (2004)
• Cherry tree 咲 ケ (2005)
• WISH (2005)
• Love so sweet (2007)
• Happiness (2007)
• We can make it (2007)
• One Love (2008)
• Beautiful days (2008)
• truth (2008)
• Troublemaker (2010)
• Love rainbow(2010)
• Lotus(2011)
• Face Down (2012)
• Monster (2010)

Discography (albums)

Studio albums 2001: Arashi No.1 Ichigou: Arashi wa Arashi o Yobu! 2002: Here We Go! 2003: How's It Going? 2004: Iza, Now! 2005: One (Arashi album)|One 2006: Arashic 2007: Time (Arashi album)|Time 2008: Dream "A" Live 2010: Boku no Miteiru Fūkei 2011: Beautiful World (Arashi album)|Beautiful World 2012: Popcorn (album)|Popcorn

Compilation albums 2002: Arashi Single Collection 1999–2001 2004: 5x5 The Best Selection of 2002–2004 2009: All the Best! 1999–2009

TV

• VS Arashi (Thu 19:00~19:57)
• himitsu no Arashichan (Thu 22:00~22:54)
• Arashi ni shiyagare (Sat 22:00~22:54)

Other websites

• Official Arashi website
• English forum An Arashi English forum
• Arashi-maniacVox Regularly updated Arashi news website
• Arashi Translations Index Links to English translations of Arashi articles, lyrics, radio shows, etc.