<figure id="attachment_438427" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-438427" style="width: 996px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="4f8bf84d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/09/f30d933d7f3babcea09187303c9e198b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-438427" class="wp-caption-text">Nakajima Yusho has left &#8220;Hey! He appeared in numerous productions, including the drama &#8220;O-oku&#8221; (NHK Sogo, broadcast in 2011), and was highly acclaimed as an actor.</figcaption></figure>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> Announced that &#8220;I want to focus on acting.</span></h3>
<p> Yusho Nakajima, 32, of &#8220;Hey! Say! JUMP,&#8221; announced that he will leave the group on August 28.</p>
<p> Nakajima will not attend &#8220;a-nation 2025&#8221; on August 31, and there will be no graduation stage for him, so it appears that he will leave the group.</p>
<p> JUMP made their CD debut in November 2007 as a 10-member group. Nakajima will be the third member to graduate, as Ryutaro Morimoto (30) left the group in 2011 and Keito Okamoto (32) in 2009.</p>
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<p> STARTO ENTERTAINMENT updated its official website on August 28, saying, &#8220;Hey! Say! JUMP will celebrate its 18th anniversary this November, and as we have been discussing activities for the 20th anniversary, Nakajima has expressed his wish to become independent and work on his own. We have come to the conclusion that we all respect his wishes, and we have decided to respect his wishes as well,&#8221; he reported.</p>
<p> And Nakajima himself?</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> When I thought about what I could do as a human being and what I am, I realized that I have a strong desire for acting. This desire became even more solidified, and I decided that from now on I would like to stand on my own feet and focus on acting.</span></p>
<p> The reason for his departure from the group is stated in the following words.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Nakajima made his acting debut at the age of 11 when he was a junior in the drama series &#8220;Engine&#8221; (Fuji TV, broadcast in 2005), starring Takuya Kimura (52), his senior.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> In the same year, he appeared in the popular drama &#8220;Nobuta,&#8221; starring Kazuya Kamenashi (39) and Tomohisa Yamashita (40). In the hit TV series &#8220;Hanzawa Naoki&#8221; (TBS, broadcast in &#8217;13), which became a social phenomenon, he was cast in the junior role of the main character, Hanzawa, played by Masato Sakai (51).</span><span class="strongInContent"> With her handsome face and 180cm height, she was able to model in addition to acting and being an idol,&#8221; says an entertainment writer.</span></p>
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<p> Since then, he has appeared regularly in dramas such as &#8220;O-oku&#8221; (NHK Sogo, broadcast in 2011) and &#8220;Himitsu &#8211; THE TOP SECRET&#8221; (Fuji, broadcast in January this year). He also starred in the movie &#8220;#Manhole&#8221; (released in 2011) and was a main cast member in &#8220;366 Days&#8221; (released in January of this year).</p>
<p> He will be focusing on acting from now on, and netizens are asking, &#8220;What is he going to do now?</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Yusho Nakajima is going to concentrate on his acting career. I really liked his roles as Aoki and Suzuki in &#8220;Himitsu&#8221;, didn&#8217;t you? It&#8217;s a pity that he&#8217;s leaving the group, but hang in there!</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I think you can be an actor, Yusho Nakajima. His role as Aoki in &#8220;Himitsu&#8221; was great, so I hope he&#8217;ll be in more movies.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He was also very good in &#8220;Ooku,&#8221; and I think he can do well as an actor.</span></p>
<p> I think he can do well as an actor.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" Some were suspicious of his unusually quick departure..."></div>
<h3>Fans are whispering about the &#8220;overseas job&#8221; theory.</h3>
<p> Meanwhile, fans of Hey! Say! JUMP are naturally shocked by the sudden announcement. Okamoto, who also graduated from the group in 2009 to concentrate on his acting career, announced his departure on April 5, and the live performance on April 11 was his last as a member of Hey!</p>
<p> However, in the case of Nakajima&#8217;s departure from the group on the day of the announcement, which was unusually fast, some people are wondering if there is something behind it.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Some fans are wondering if he is leaving the group suddenly because he has some overseas work lined up behind his sudden departure. Nakajima had been studying English hard for some time so that he would be ready for overseas work whenever it came.</span></p>
<p> Speaking of Nakajima, when he attended the &#8220;Berlin International Film Festival&#8221; in 2011, his speech in fluent English became a topic of conversation. On the January 29 broadcast of the talk show &#8220;Fashionable Clip&#8221; (Nippon TV), he revealed that one of his dreams is to be in a movie or TV drama that is entirely in English. Nakajima also revealed his rivalry with Nakajima when he learned that Nakajima Kento (31), then a member of Sexy Zone, would be appearing in the foreign drama &#8220;Concordia&#8221; (Hulu).</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> In the same program, Nakajima expressed his desire for the group, saying, &#8220;I wish the eight of us could continue to work as Hey! Nakajima, who loved the members so much, must have had a strong desire to &#8220;compete as an actor on his own merits&#8221; because he made this decision. Of course, if he has a good encounter with an overseas production, he will take on the challenge, depending on his schedule.</span></p>
<p> After causing grief to the fans and the members, we hope that the group will show that they have matured since their days as a group.</p>


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