End of the blog... but not of Facebook!

Hello everyone,

Some of you will not be surprised but this blog will end from now to be totally focused on the Facebook page.
Then this is true some do not have yet an account, they dislike Facebook, etc. but whatever is done, it is not possible to make everyone happy. Moreover there were not really reasons to keep this blog while doing the same thing on Facebook.

And from now, I will ask you, all the people who can understand English all over the world, something. I know there are more than 1700 fans of Up-Front artists... Many thousands fans came to see Morning Musume。, HANGRY&ANGRY-f and Berryz Kobo in America for example.
We can easily reach 10 000 fans, so are you ready for this bet?

So to all of you, you know what do you have to do now: like the Facebook page of Up-Front Link. The more who will be, the more exclusive pictures, live-reports, etc. you will have. You will not be disappointed ;)

Thank you all for your support!!

And for the Facebook page, this is HERE.

Up-Front Link on Facebook !!

Finally, we made it!! Up-Front Link will be on Facebook. I still do not know if we will continue the blog in the same way as it was until now, I will let you know about it later.
For the moment you can join the Up-Front Link page here.

Thank you in advance and show your support to Up-Front artists.

The more fans there will be of this page, the more we will try to cover events, give you more news, etc.

Edit: You can now access the page from this link.

Recent problems with Blogger and the followers of this blog

As some of you may know, Blogger had major problems for some days. I could not reach the administration and I have lost the last post about Berryz Kobo. Hopefully I had a backup of the post but some of the comments have been lost, sorry about this.

Anyway, I hope you will continue to support the blog and be sure to become a follower!!
The blog exists for several months now and I am quite surprised to see just 262 followers (and 117 for the French version)... If you want this blog to continue, you know what do you have to do now ;)

Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu, website and CD

Few times ago a site has been opened here about the Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu project.
You will find many things including a photo gallery with pictures of all the artists singing Ai wa Katsu.

Then, some of you were waiting for this, the song Ai wa Katsu will be released in a package CD+DVD on June 22th.
CD:

1. Ai wa Katsu
2. Ai wa Katsu (Instrumental)

DVD:

1. Music video of Ai wa Katsu
2. Video filming day and video of the charity event of April 9th

This package will be sold 1260 yens, reference EPCE-5796～7.

All the funds will go to the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Report of the charity event Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu ～From Yokohama with love～

It was quite a rainy day on April, 9th. But still, people were waiting for the beginning of the event with umbrellas in Yokohama Yamashita's park. Some were there for many hours under the cold rain.
The public was well balanced, many fans of idols of course but also many parents and their children and also many girls.

This day had to be special and it has really been!

98 artists of Up-Front Group on stage

Genki Aizawa and Junko Shinoda arrived on stage to introduce this event.The mayor of the city Fumiko Hayashi made a nice talk to the public and wished people to come back to the park like they were used to do in the past.
So after the official people, it was the turn of the some talents of Up-Front Group to talk like Takao Horiuchi, Shoko Aida, Chisato Moritaka and of course Tsunku♂.

Takao Horiuchi

Shoko Aida

Chisato Moritaka

Tsunku♂

KAN

KAN, the writer of the song Ai wa Katsu, was the last to talk with a powerful Ganbarou Nippon!! (Let's do our best Japan!!). All the artists sang this nice song followed by the audience, many thousands of people!!

Ganbarou Nippon!! 

Then all the artists have been divided in several groups in three areas: Yamashita Park, Chinatown and Motomachi.
Some were saying thank you and checking hands to the people giving money and the other ones were selling charity t-shirts to the people.

Comedian Tokihide Okami from Joujou Gundan

Saki Ogawa from S/mileage

Kaori Iida selling a t-shirt to a young girl

Tsunku♂ and Mari Yaguchi asking people to come to buy t-shirts

Mai Satoda and two T-Pistonz members asking people to come and buy t-shirts

Maya Hayashi and Noriko Kato selling t-shirts

Many artists like Mari Yaguchi, Koharu Kusumi, etc. in Chinatown area to thank people for their generosity

Tsunku♂ at the entrance of temple in Chinatown to thank people

Long line of people waiting to give money

Aya Matsuura, KAN, Erina Mano, Takui Nakajima and Yuki Maeda at the Motomachi area

So do not forget you can buy this charity song on iTunes here and Ganbarou Nippon!!!

Video of saturday from the Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu project and the mp3 of the song Ai wa Katsu

If you want to buy the song Ai wa Katsu, here is the iTunes link. Just 0.99$ for a nice charity project!!

For those who couldn't see the ustream on saturday, you can still see the video of the charity event here on ustream. Let your comments here !!

Video of the Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu project on Ustream !!

It will be possible to see some of the charity Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu project on the official Ustream channel which has just been made for this occasion, so check this link!

It will be from 11AM to 11:30AM (Japanese time).

Logo of the event

MV for the Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu project

It has just been uploaded on the Up-Front Channel, so you will see the artists of Up-Front singing the song of KAN, Ai wa Katsu.

Do not forget to read my post about the Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu project!!

"Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu" Project

We would like to express our sincere and deepest sympathy to everyone who has been affected by the huge earthquake which happened in eastern Japan. Our prays go to those who died and suffered.

Now, Up-Front Group as well as the related artists, the associated companies and their artists will launch the "Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu" (in English "Do your best Japan, Love will win") Project.

Logo of the event

Link of the Japanese news

During this project we will organize many activities, like songs for example, for the people who suffered from the disaster as well as for their family and everyone, with our small possibilities of helping and collecting.

First of all, on April 9th from 11AM, in the park of Yokohama, with the support of executive committees and joint sponsorship, 98 people of the Up-Front Group as well as the related artists will take part of the project "Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu" ～From Yokohama with love～.
The song of KAN "Ai wa Katsu" will be sing by everyone. Then the event will take place not only in the park of Yokohama, "Yamashita Kouen" but also in Motomachi and Chinatown.
Fund-raising activities will be carried out until 4PM.

Takao Horiuchi will lead the charity song Ai wa Katsu with 131 people from Up-Front Group as well as the associated companies. This song will be available on Recochoku (official download platform) and other websites on the same day, April 9th.

In addition, from now, each concert, each event as well as HP, etc. will invite for donations money for eastern Japan.

This activity of collecting funds will be for the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Up-Front Group as well as associated companies will go to the disaster area for the restoration.
All of our artists and staff will support the slogan "Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu" and continue to give his assistance in the future.


Thank you all in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

The blog is back!!

Hello everyone,

First, I would like to say sorry for this late post.
As you can easily imagine, many things happened here and we were really busy with many other things.
Of course the situation is still not the best in Japan, but the Up Front artists and staff are ok.
We will try our best for all of you!

So let's pray for all the others who have suffered from all those disasters.

Meiji Shrine

At the beginning of January almost everyone from our company came to the Meiji Shrine in Yoyogi to wish prosperity to Up-Front.

I have been surprised to meet Rika Ishikawa who wanted to come with us for this special moment.

Rika Ishikawa

During more than 30 minutes, we sat quietly to see the ceremony in the Shrine.

It was really interesting and after the end, some people bought some charms.

Meiji Shrine

Omikuji

Other charms and items

Outside the Meiji Shrine

Omikuji with bad prediction

For more informations about omikuji, you can check wikipedia.

So let's wish it will be a great year for Up-Front's artists and for the company!!

Welcome!!

Hello everyone, I am Phil, currently living in Japan for some times!

I will use this opportunity to introduce you some artists of the company Up-Front. So do not miss this chance to discover more and more things about them, I am sure you will not regret it!!!

So see you really soon \o/

PS: there's a French version of this blog here