<figure id="attachment_410010" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-410010" style="width: 1436px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="12767256"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/01/86bba938bb036fd3c047323f7470989b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-410010" class="wp-caption-text">Yamada Ryosuke released his solo digital single &#8220;SWITCH&#8221; on December 24, 2012. It has been about 12 years since he released a solo song (photo from FRIDAY September 2, 2010 issue).</figcaption></figure>
 JUMP&#8217;s &#8220;absolute ace,&#8221; Yamada Ryosuke, released his first solo digital single &#8220;SWITCH&#8221; on December 24, 2012. Also from STARTO ENTERTAINMENT, Takahisa Masuda of NEWS is scheduled to release his first solo album &#8220;Kiatsu Aigura&#8221; in February 2013. After the former Johnny&#8217;s made a fresh start, solo activities by members of the group have been flourishing.
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<h3> Fans are also in a welcoming mood for solo activities.</h3>
 Yamada is the center of Hey! Yamada, who also does a lot of acting and other personal activities, released his new solo song &#8220;Switch&#8221; digitally. On December 18, 2012, it was announced that NEWS&#8217; Masuda would release his first solo album &#8220;Kiatsu Aigaku&#8221; on February 12, 2013, and hold a solo live concert &#8220;Takahisa Masuda 1st LIVE Kiatsu Aigaku&#8221; with the album in tow.
 In addition, Daiga Kyomoto of SixTONES announced the start of his creative project &#8220;ART-PUT&#8221; in September 2012, which will be featured on the YouTube channel &#8220;Daiga Kyomoto from ART-PUT&#8221; for three consecutive months: &#8220;Prelude&#8221; (September 3), &#8220;WONDER LAND (October 3) and &#8220;Blue night&#8221; (November 3).
 He is already running as a solo artist, holding a live concert &#8220;TAIGA KYOMOTO Anniversary Event &#8220;30 -THI &#8220;ART &#8220;Y-&#8221; at the Tokyo Garden Theater on December 3, his 30th birthday.
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 Both Yamada and Masuda are key members of the group, and Kyomoto is one of the main vocalists of SixTONES. In response to these trends, SNS,
 [Daega-kun, Yamada-kun, and Masuda-kun, the core members of the group, have announced that they will be releasing solo songs, but is it because their office has become an agent company?
 〈STARTO&#8217;s most popular middle group members continue to make solo debuts. It looks like this is going to become the mainstream.
 Following Yamada-kun, Masuzu also made his solo debut!　It&#8217;s a good sign that STARTO is experiencing a boom in solo debuts.
 Both Masuda-kun and Yamada-kun have a sense of security that they will never leave the group. I think it&#8217;s great that their solo activities are so welcomed.
 The comments were warmly received.
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&#8220;In response to the sexual assault issue of Johnny&#8217;s founder, Mr. Kitagawa, the agency changed its name to &#8216;SMILE-UP.&#8217; as of October 17, &#8217;23. As it became a company that only provides compensation services for victims, a new agent company, STARTO ENTERTAINMENT, was created to sign contracts with talent.&#8217; Full-scale operations began on April 10, 2012.
 I have the impression that STARTO has made it easier for the talent to express their wishes and claims, and has given them a greater degree of freedom. They are realizing what they want to do one after another, and seem to be focusing on activities outside of the group.
 However, for Yamada and Masuda, who have begun their solo music careers, the group is their &#8220;home away from home. On December 17, when Yamada announced the digital release of &#8220;SWITCH,&#8221; she updated her blog on the FAMILY CLUB web, a membership site. He declared, &#8220;As a group Yamada, of course, but also as Yamada Ryosuke solo, I would like to take on many new challenges from now on.
 Then, on the radio program &#8220;Masumaru Rajio by Takahisa Masuda and Yuichi Nakamaru&#8221; (MBS Radio, broadcast on the 18th), Masuda confessed that he wanted to make his solo album &#8220;for NEWS. He revealed that he wanted to make a solo album &#8220;for the sake of NEWS, &#8220; and that he thought it would be beneficial to NEWS if he could reach people who have not seen NEWS before.
<h3> Solo activities have been active since &#8217;24.</h3>
 In January and February, KAT-TUN&#8217;s Tatsuya Ueda held his first solo live tour in about 14 years, &#8220;Tatsuya Ueda &#8211; MOUSE PEACE KAT-TUN member Kazuya Kamenashi also launched his own solo project &#8220;Inside 23&#8221; and held a live performance &#8220;Inside 23 experiment No. 0&#8221; in November.
 A.B.C-Z&#8217;s Shota Totsuka held his first solo live &#8220;Solo Tour 2024 guerrilla love&#8221; in October, and 20th Century&#8217;s Masayuki Sakamoto held his solo live &#8220;MASAYUKI SAKAMOTO Billboard Live 2024&#8221; during December. That is why the current STARTO is so important to the individual. This is how active STARTO has become in terms of individual activities.
 We look forward to seeing what kind of possibilities STARTO&#8217;s talents will have as solo artists in the future.

 Yoshito Murata

 STARTO ENTERTAINMENT artists such as Ryosuke Yamada of Hey! Say! JUMP and Takahisa Masuda of NEWS have been active as solo artists since 2012. -- PHOTO

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