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29 NOVEMBER 2016 -- V6's Hiroshi Nagano announced in a letter to the V6 fanclub that he was married to famous actress, Miho Shiraishi. Furthermore, in a fax sent to press, Nagano states, "We'll devote more of our time to each other to build a bright and cheerful family." The marriage papers were filed and settled earlier this morning.

Nagano is the second to be married in V6, following Yoshihiko Inohara (40) and Asaka Seto (39) in 2007. Within Johnny's, the last to be married is TOKIO's Taichi Kokubun (42), who married outside of Japan's talent circle.

source: Huffington Post Japan

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I'M LOSING MY SHIT

THIS AUTUMN BRINGS US THE HOUSEKEEPER MITAZONO...
HE'S CERTAINLY MALE, BUT LOOKS LIKE A FEMALE!?

Masahiro Matsuoka's housekeeper character Kaoru Mitazono is sent to work for families and finds out their inner workings along the way. And as he cleans their houses, so too does he clean their issues away, creating a thrilling human drama for Kaseifu no Mitazono. Matsuoka's foray is the first involving a male housekeeper in the history of TV Asahi, and on the 21st of October (Friday) the drama will be the newest addition in the Legendary Housekeeper line-up. Furthermore, it appears the lead actor Matsuoka will be cross-dressing in his role!

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source: kaseifu no mitazono official site

One panel from Fragile
Bin Kusamizu's original work, Fragile, with art by Megumi Saburou, will have a television drama adaptation. It will start on the 13th of January in 2016 on Fuji Television.

Fragile is a medical-themed work serialised in Kodansha's monthly publication, Afternoon. A pathologist's job is to diagnose diseases based on an assortment of data, including but not limited to a patient's bodily fluids, stool samples, cells, and blood. It's been decided that the protagonist, a pathologist named Keiichiro Kishi, will be played by none other than TOKIO's Tomoya Nagase.

It'll be 15 years since Nagase's last foray into the world of medical dramas, that being when he starred in TBS' drama, Handoku!!!, in 2001. However, this time he plays the only suit-wearer in a group of white coats, who more often than not clashes with those who're more passionate than he. As far as how playing the character goes, one way to think of it is that "Kishi is intensely eccentric, but also holds one of the most brilliant minds".

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