6. Please tell us what Arashi’s strengths and weaknesses are.

Aiba Masaki
(Strength) It feels weird to say this myself, but… I guess our diligence?
(Weakness) Maybe the fact that we’re not really all that ambitious.

Matsumoto Jun 
Strength: We’re fun people. 
Weakness: We’re introverted… (laugh). Sometimes we end up having fun just amongst ourselves.

Ninomiya Kazunari 
A strength would be the fact that we’re close. People have always said that to us so it’s probably a strength. A weakness would be that we’re too close so we don’t really try to interact with the outside world.

Ohno Satoshi 
Strength: Being nice.
Weakness: Being too nice (laugh).

Sakurai Sho 
Strength / Having an unsubstantiated sense of danger.
Weakness / Being optimistic with no basis for it.

- H Magazine (2012.04)

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—To dig on that talk furthermore, we’ll be glad if you share to us your current view on love.

When I was in my teens, I had this vague thought that I’ll be marrying when I’m 28. But now that I’m already 28, it’s completely not that way. I wonder which is better, should I just say that I’ll be married soon? (laughs)

—No, not to that extent (laughs). But do you wish to be married in the future?

Yes, I do. That kind of feeling is still hazy but in some way, I want to have my own kids, if possible until I turn 30. It is just two years away but if my kid is born when I’m 30, when he/she reaches 20 years old, I’ll be already 50 years old. I’ve been thinking about that.

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risaanon:

Frankly, I’m not really clear about the type I like. I don’t have requests that determine what my lover should do to me to make me happy either. After all, if you’re really with someone you like, that alone is already a blessing. For such times, don’t you take deep breaths somehow? (laughs) And, you’d want to sigh with a “haahh~”. I like that sensation, where it feels like your entire body is feeling happiness. To be able to think, “Just being by her side makes me happy” without having to do a performance or anything exaggerated, that’s the happiest thing I think. And, if you feel that your partner thinks that way as well, then you’ll be happy right. This is really just my own opinion but, when a man takes deep breaths next to you, surely it’s alright to think that, right now, you’re bringing happiness to him (laughs).

Matsumoto Jun’s interview in the AnAn magazine…

Finally, as an idol, actor, singer, and so on, you have many faces, but which do you think is the most truthful version of yourself?

“… a person. Yea, I’m a “person”. Because when asked “What are you?”, I wouldn’t exist without myself, right? For me, even without Arashi, or not being an actor, I’m really just a person coincidentally given the name Matsumoto Jun. Thats all, ne.”

- Matsumoto Jun (source)

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