Good Morning.

Sanma-san (Aho na stars) and BEGIN-san’s song.

“Egao no Manma (Smiling State)”

There’s a lot of lyrics I really like in it！
It seems like the song cheers on those who are victims of disasters too！

This morning watching the news, they interviewed this woman at one of the disaster areas,
“The young lost their lives, somehow it’s like I’m what’s left…”
she was saying.

But but, miss.
If you lost your life, there’d be people who’d be sad and lonely.
I thought, somehow without being timid, I want to live.

“Just by living you’ll gain something”…Sanma-san says the phrase a lot.

For real. Just living is great.

And, a smiling state.

For me this is, what I want to do now with Morning Musume。.

I, want to see the fans smiles soon！

Especially at a time like this, We have to do our best, I want Japan to be all smiles！

2011/3/20 18:09

Yesterday was the broadcast of “Ikegami Akira-kun ni Oshietai １０ no nyu-su (１０ News items I want to tell Ikegami Akira-kun)”
that I appeared on.

At the time of the recording, I wasn’t even thinking that an earthquake could happen and that Japan would be in this kind of state.

I saw lots of,
“Sayumin came on TV and I felt energetic,”
in the comments.

Yesterday on the blog I wrote,
“Not being able to do anything really is frustrating.”
That’s what I said but,
I was wrong.

For me, there’s TV, my Blog, and the Radio.
If Sayumi’s energetic appearance can give people energy even a little, I have never been this happy before.

And I’m part of Morning Musume。.
As Morning Musume。 I want to reach out to everyeone with the songs we sing. That’s what I’m really thinking about.

I want to impart my energy and courage and love.

2011/3/19 11:29

Good Morning.

The things I do inadvertently, and the things I can speak about normally, the value of these kinds of things I’m grateful for are sinking in.

Disaster victims even now are feeling cold, I think about it.

Knowing that, and knowing I can’t do anything about it is really frustrating.

In some way I’ll do my best by conserving electricity and conserving water！

With this blog, I feel like I’m able to connect with everyone and
for sure, I hope that each and everyone one of us is doing our best to connect to a bright future for Japan.

That’s what I believe.

Let’s do our best together.

2011/3/18 14:45

We can raise funds using Gree as well.
Even I can be part of something considerable.

http://gree.jp/r/20348/1
(Tl: Gree’s Fundraising site in Japanese, I would imagine it’s better/easier to find a local support sending aid if you are one of the one’s coming here to read translations)

Somehow even one person can save lots of people….

2011/3/17 21:22

Everyone, are you doing okay？

Tokyo today is very cold.

Thinking how it must be colder for all the victims of the disaster, it really hurts my heart.

I really hope we can return to how things were soon.

Reality doesn’t seem like reality
but it is reality…

But someday we’ll go back to how it use to be again.

Believing in that now, I can keep going you know?

Let’s believe in it.

Now, throughout Japan, we’re cooperating, we’re helping each other.

Let’s believe in Japan.

Even if it’s just a little it, I hope that someday soon Japan can get it’s smile back again.

2011/3/17 18:48

Is everyone doing okay？

Tokyo today, really has some staggering wind,
though usually it wouldn’t be anything to worry about, even that was a bit scary.

And after that, there’s another quake came,
I was at work but,
it was uneasy.

But, I couldn’t just let it be uneasy…

The victims are frantically doing their best,
What can I do too…and what I thought of was conserving electricity, water, and raising money.

And, for me I have the TV and my blog.
I can tell everyone and,
I can bring everyone together.

I hadn’t thought about it but even things like this, up until now, everything I normally do here, I’m grateful for it.

With that in mind, today I did my best with work.

All the victims are doing their best so I need to do my best too, for something… so that we can do something along… I did my best.

Anyway, we’re still doing it, we’re saving electricity and food！

Let’s do our best together！

My blog is like this but,
lots of entertainers and celebrities in Japan are bring everyone together with their blogs.

We aren’t alone.

Everyone cry out together, share it, let’s ride through this.

2011/3/16 21:54

Good Morning.

Everyone, are you okay?

The uneasiness is still going strong huh.

The aftershocks are continuing, it feels uneasy all the time…

When will we finally get some peace…

It’s tough watching the news.
But it’s the current condition of japan, I couldn’t turn my eyes away from that.

To face it firmly,
I thought it’s something I can do so,
I’m thinking of as much as I can do to do.

Now, I think everyone in Japan is thinking the same.

The power of one person…
In Japan, if the power of each and every person were to gather, we’d have great power.

At times like this we need to share with everyone for sure.

2011/3/16 15:00

Good Morning.

“Good Morning.” being about to say it as always, I think I’m really greatful for this kind of stuff too, I think it everyday since the day the earthquakes came.

In this life, for the first time,
Even though it was on the news, there were a lot of images I just couldn’t believe,

but it was all real…
I couldn’t believe it, I just couldn’t

It was really heart-wrenching.

This morning, there were still earthquakes. For real, these uneasy days keep going.

But more than me, more than anything, when I think about all the victims who are feeling really really sad, who are cold, and uneasy, I really wish I had the power to do something.

I couldn’t come up with anything I could do but conserving electricity and raising money so
that’s what I’m doing, conserving electricity.
and raising money.

Somehow, all of the victims.
Don’t give up hope. Please don’t lose to this.

I’m thinking I have to do all that I can as well.

2011/3/15 14:30

Yesterday was rehearsals.
Today there’s no rehearsals but there is work.

At the rehearsal hall and at work it really just can’t be helped but,

When we aren’t using the hall or the dressing rooms, we take care by turning off the lights and conserve electricity.

Even when we are using the hall and the dressing rooms we get by with just some of the lights.

When I’m at home, mom and I say in the same room as much as possible, keeping places we use lights in down.

The disaster victims are going through hardships so,
I want to help out too.

But when I think about the victims feelings and their burden, it causes pain in my chest.

So that I can support the victims,
and so that victims can feel better, I’m doing my best with work too.

Even if it’s just a little, I hoping we can recover soon.

2011/3/14 14:31

Today was rehearsal.

Everyone did their best.

There isn’t enough time until opening day so,
we’re trying our quite hard！！
I wonder if we’ll be ok.

It’s exciting dokidoki.

But, I’ll do my best！
Keep going！ Somehow or another I’ll stand firm！

Thinking, “disaster victims are doing their best too,”
Even if it’s just for a few of them, in order to cheer them up, I’ll do my best too.

We’ve just started a long night but, not being defeated, let’s do our best together.

There’s still aftershocks so, pleace be careful.

2011/3/13 01:38