On March 23, actress Kuriyama Chiaki (35) opened her official Twitter account and announced that she has left her agency that she belonged to for 30 years. According to persons concerned, the actress left the agency on March 10 and will be launching her own office. 

Kuriyama tweeted, "At this time, I, Kuriyama Chiaki, have left Space Craft Entertainment and will be going independent. I am only grateful to the agency that has guided me for 30 years."

Former Kalafina member Hikaru will be releasing her first major debut single "Altern-ate-" under her solo project H-el-ical// on May 20. 

"Altern-ate-" has been picked up as the opening theme for TV anime 'Gleipnir' beginning in April. You can check out 2 promotional videos for "Altern-ate-" below. 

The new CMs for 'AJINOMOTO Olive Oil Extra Virgin' and 'AJINOMOTO Olive Oil' stars Arashi's Ohno Satoshi. 

The two new CMs are in collaboration with American TV character Popeye. As such, Ohno becomes "Satoshi Popeye" and co-stars with Olive. 

RADWIMPS have released a new song titled "Light The Light" for people battling the new coronavirus. 

RADWIMPS were supposed to kick off their nationwide tour 'KONNICHIWA NIPPON TOUR 2020,' but due to the pandemic, it was postponed. On the song, Noda Yojiro (Vo, G), "Our song 'Light The Light', which was written for people battling the coronavirus, will begin streaming on various platforms at 12:00 am. Tomorrow was supposed to be the first day of our tour, the first day at Kyocera Dome. It's frustrating. I will never forget this frustration."

Kimura Takuya and Kudo Shizuka's eldest daughter Cocomi has launched an Instagram account. In her first post, she announced that she has been appointed as the Japanese ambassador of Dior and will be on the cover of 'VOGUE JAPAN' that's due out on March 28. 

She first greeted, "Everyone, nice to meet you. I'm Cocomi. Please treat me kindly!" On shooting the 'VOGUE JAPAN' cover, she commented, "It was such a wonderful experience. Thank you very much!" 

KinKi Kids will release their 42nd single "KANZAI BOYA" on May 5.

"KANZAI BOYA" is the name of their unit before they became KinKi Kids. It's described as a funk number written and composed by Domoto Tsuyoshi. They performed at their dome concert 'ThanKs 2 YOU' late last year. 

[Alexandros] will hold a live house tour called 'Where's My Tomato? Tour' from June. 

This announcement was made on March 18 during a live broadcast. The upcoming tour is scheduled to kick off on June 24 at KT Zepp Yokohama and will wrap up on August 15 Zepp Haneda for a total of 14 shows at 7 venues. The full schedule can be seen below the cut. 

All of miwa's music videos from her debut song "don't cry anymore" to her latest single "StoryTeller / Teenage Dream" have been uploaded onto YouTube. 

miwa, who celebrates 10 years since her debut this year, have released a total of 35 videos. You can finally watch the full versions of the short PVs that she's revealed thus far.

Check out all of miwa's music videos here! 

It's been announced that comedian Buruzon Chiemi will be leaving Watanabe Entertainment on March 31. 

On March 18, Buruzon revealed on Instagram, "I will be leaving Watanabe Entertainment, who has taken care of me over the past 4 years. I am grateful from the bottom of my heart to everyone at the office who supported me as Buruzon Chiemi." She continued, "From now on, as 'Fujiwara Shiori,' my real name, I will listen to my heart and live by my instincts." 

The first artist lineup for Fuji TV's 'FNS Music Special Program: Haru wa Kanarazu Kuru' has been announced. 

Due to the worldwide spread of COVID-19, the World Figure Skating Championships, which was scheduled to be held in Montreal, Canada, was canceled. As such, the broadcast of this music program was decided. 

It's been reported that Becky (36) gave birth to her first child early this month. Her agency confirmed the reports after an interview with ORICON STYLE. The sex and birthdate of her baby have not been revealed. 

Becky married baseball coach Kataoka Yasuyuki (37) in January of last year. Her pregnancy was announced last November.

As previously reported, Kamenashi Kazuya (KAT-TUN) and Yamashita Tomohisa's unit Kame to YamaP will release their first original album on April 29. At this time, it has been determined that "SI" will be the title of the album. 

The album is titled "SI" as the word appears in their song "Seishun Amigo" many times. In addition, when you reverse the letters, it could be read as "15" representing 15 years since "Seishun Amigo" was first released. 

Koda Kumi has revealed the trailer for her remix album "re(MIX)", which was released on March 11.

This album is a remix of Koda's album "re(CORD)" that she released in November. It features remixes by shadw, KATFYR, KAZBONGO, Adolfo De La Torre Casmartino, iamSHUM, Toki, Kiyoshi Sugo, MATZ?BUNNY, and DJ Shimamura.