is a Japanese singer, actor and member of the J-pop

J-pop

, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...

 group Hey! Say! JUMP

Hey! Say! JUMP

Hey! Say! JUMP is a ten-member Japanese boy band under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates. The name Hey! Say! refers to the fact that all the members were born in the Heisei period and JUMP is an acronym for Johnny's Ultra Music Power...

. He is currently under the management of Johnny & Associates. He was born in Ibaraki

Ibaraki

Ibaraki may refer to any of the following places in Japan:* Ibaraki Prefecture, one of the 47 prefectures of Japan**Ibaraki, Ibaraki, a town in Ibaraki Prefecture* Ibaraki, Osaka, a city in Osaka PrefectureIt can also refer to:...

, Osaka and resides in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

Career

On June 12, 2004, he entered Johnny & Associates as a trainee. He became a member of J.J Express.

On April 3 of 2007, he began activities with Hey! Say! 7, with fellow Hey! Say! JUMP members, Daiki Arioka

Daiki Arioka

is a Japanese actor, tarento and singer as well as member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. He was born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture.- Career:...

, Ryosuke Yamada

Ryosuke Yamada

is a Japanese tarento, actor, singer, dancer, and a member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates and currently resides in Kanagawa Prefecture.-Career:...

, Yuto Nakajima

Yuto Nakajima

is a Japanese actor and dancer, as well as a singer from the group Hey! Say! JUMP .-2004: Joined Johnny's Entertainment :Nakajima joined Johnny's Jr. on March 28, 2004, in his 5th year of elementary school...

 and Yuri Chinen, starting with a public performance at a KAT-TUN

KAT-TUN

KAT-TUN is a Japanese boy band formed by Johnny & Associates in 2001. The group's name is an acronym based on the first letter of each member's family name until the departure of Jin Akanishi in 2010. As of 2010, KAT-TUN stands for Kazuya KAmenashi, Junnosuke Taguchi, Koki Tanaka, Tatsuya Ueda,...

 spring concert tour.

On September 21, 2007, he became a member of Hey! Say! JUMP.

In 2008 he starred in the third season of hit live action drama, Gokusen

Gokusen

is a manga series by Kozueko Morimoto. The story follows Kumiko Yamaguchi, the granddaughter of a Yakuza boss and teacher at an all-male private high school. In 2008, a SP manga was out, featuring some of Yankumi's old students who are by now working adults.In 2002, the manga was adapted into a...

 , for which he recorded the song Oretachi no Seishun which was released with Hey! Say! JUMP's second single, Dreams Come True.

Solo Songs

• Oretachi no Seishun
• Kumo no Ito
• Michishirube
• Time (Lyrics written by Yuya, arranged by Daiki Arioka
  Daiki Arioka
  is a Japanese actor, tarento and singer as well as member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. He was born in Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture.- Career:...
  
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Drama

• Shabake (2007) as Eikichi
• Gokusen 3 SP (2008) as Ogata Yamato
• Gokusen 3 (2008) as Ogata Yamato