▼ Headline: “Sho Sakurai and Masaki Aiba Marriage Announcements at Same Time”

▼ Headline: “Sho Sakurai and Masaki Aiba Announce Double Marriage” It was like watching the mass media’s thought-process in real-time as they searched for a way to properly phrase this news. “I wonder if the writer did that intentionally to get clicks.”Ĭynical logic would dictate that it was an intentionally suggestive wording, but as the hours went by you could almost witness the headlines evolve. “Why would they announce it at the same time? Who does that?” “At first I thought, ‘Wow, they’re really getting into the freedom of their post-idol life.'” “That’s normal journalistic style when the partner is an ordinary person.” This naturally resulted in a lot of confused comments online. It’s something that could have been swiftly clarified in English by using the plural “Marriages” instead, but since Japanese doesn’t usually use plurals the ambiguity was about as thick as you could get. ▼ Headline: “Sho Sakurai & Masaki Aiba Announce Marriage” Simultaneous wedding announcements aren’t all that common, and with two notorious heartthrobs getting taken off the market being big news, entertainment journalists rushed to get the headline out. Now, on the offical Arashi fan club website it has been announced that members Sho Sakurai and Masaki Aiba have also wed!īy that I mean, they each married another person, not…you know, each other.Īnd herein lies the problem. Kazunari Kinomiya got a jump on his bandmates by tying the knot back in 2019 and celebrated the birth of his first child last March. ▼ Their final concert had to be held without an audience due to pandemic restrictions. Undoubtedly, for some members one of those projects was a chance to settle down and start a family. Boy, they really do like doing everything together.Īlthough they went out on a bittersweet note in the midst of the pandemic, legendary boy band Arashi decided to temporarily boy disband at the end of 2020 to pursue their own projects.

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