"Kanjani Eight is a Japanese pop idol group formed by 7 members who are from Japan's Kansai region. They are under the multimedia talent agency, Johnny & Associates and having their own record label 「INFINITY RECORDS 」. The name of Kanjani 8 meant「Kansai Johnny's 8 members」 due to all of the member's living region. They are known as idol group but also comedians. Due to their sense of a joke, the group is also popular with men too. At first, most of the members were casts of the TV show「J3KANSAI」 and they were chosen as Kanjani Eight later on. Unlikely other pop idol group, they debuted with Japanese Ballad style song 「Naniwa Iroha Bushi」 in 2004." "Despite the popularity nowadays, Kanjani Eight is known as the group which got over …show more content…
He always pays meal when he goes out with friends 2. He asked to resign Johnny & Associates together to Hiroki Uchida when Hiroki Uchida had to resign the company 3. His brother owns a bar and he is also good looking 4. His mother is a Kimono Dresser 5. His image color is yellow 6. He is enthusiastic for Banana Juice 7. He made a song named 「Banana juice」with Yu Yokoyama 8. He needs to stick to someone when he sleeps 9. He hasn't been to Thailand yet 10. He poured mayonnaise to expensive crabs, what a waste!" "*about Tadayoshi Okura took the audition of Johnny & Accosiates, due to his cousin sent his CV to the company in 1995. 2 years later he received the notice of audition for the company and passed. His friends Shota Yasuda and Ryuhei Maruyama recommended director Johnny Kitagawa to have him as a member of Kanjani8 , due to he has excellent rhythm. He is the last chosen person of Kanjani8. His father owns big Izakaya chain named 「Torikizoku」, thus sometimes he called as a rich boy. However, he hasn't got any money from the family after joined the company, and sometimes had to work as a newspaper
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