Nakamaru: I wonder when we first knew each other. Koyama: I was aware of Nakamaru-kun in "The Shonen Club". The Shonen Club always starts with a dance number, and when I saw Nakamaru and Ueda-kun (Tatsuya) dancing together, I thought, "This guy is a good dancer!" That was my first impression. Nakamaru: Thank you very much. What year did you join the Johnny's Office? Koyama: It was in 2001. Nakamaru: I see. Same period. Koyama: I think the team that I auditioned together and still remain are the Kiss My Ft2 team of Yokoo (Wataru), Nikaido (Takashi), and Miyata (Toshiya). Was Ueda always your shinme? Nakamaru: No, originally it was Fujigaya. Koyama: Eh? Really? Nakamaru: It was less than a year in duration. There was a period when Fujigaya, Ueda, and I were doing various dances together, and then Ueda and I became shinme. My impression of Koyama was that you were there all of a sudden. Koyama: That's what Shige (Shigeaki Kato) tells me, too. Suddenly, I was i
A collection of all my KAT-TUN translations.