Arashi Announces Suspension Of All Activities In 2020!

Popular male idol group Arashi announce on their Johnny’s Fan Club site that Arashi will be suspending all activities at the end of 2020. In the fan club site all five member thanked all the fans for all the support. 

The members will also be having an official press conference later on today (January 27)

Update 03:00 AM HST

After the major news of Arashi will be heading in to hiatus the one question that everyone had in mind is are they disbanding? After a major entertainment shifting presser, that question was quelled. Member Jun Matsumoto immediately responded “No, we’re not disbanding.” Other members chimed in with that “this is a new challenge for all us” and “Arashi is all five of us and that will always continue to be”.
Leader Satoshi Ohno originally brought up the hiatus to the other members back in June 2017 and obviously shocked they understood with a decision be decided in June of 2018. Ohno stated in the presser that “he has no specific plans on what he wats to do and that he just want to try living a free lifestyle for once away from the entertainment world, and try things that he never done before, living a normal life.”

Other member Kazunari Ninomiya stated “not to blame Ohno for this. When everyone is willing to work, they will come together. but if there’s a time when someone doesn’t want to, they will talk and try to come to an understanding.”

Other major questions throughout the presser was roughly how long this hiatus will be “Ohno stated that he really doesn’t know/ thought about it however he love that the other members can laugh with him about this and that they understand how major of an announcement this is to him.”