It's a weekly half an hour show of the Johnny's Jr in which the Juniors sing, dance, do challenges and talk and make jokes. Broadcast by NHK BS-2 Channel. Currently the only Johnny's Jr-featuring show in the NHK Channel, it's often called "Shokura" for short. Current hosts are 4 Tops (Yamapi, Toma, Kazapon, Hasejun and Jimmy Mackey. Regular performers are KAT-TUN, 4 Tops, Jimmy Mackey, KK Kity, Ya Ya Yah, ABC, MAD, and FIVE. The younger juniors appear to dance behind the leading Junior groups.

This report page is meant to give a summary and review of the episodes so that fans who can't watch the show will still know what the Juniors are up to in this exciting show!
Important news regarding the show (NOT the Juniors) will also be posted here. In the future, there might be screen caps and mp3 downloads (if there's time to work on a section such as this).
It is possible to ask for summaries and review for past episodes, particular questions regarding a particular episode and lyrics of the songs performed in Shokura. But the webmistress DO NOT sell Shokura tapes/VCDs or give away Shokura downloads.

ZA SHOUNEN CLUB LINKS

ARCHIVED REPORT
WEBMISTRESS' 2002 EPISODE COLLECTION
SHOKURA PAGE ON NHK WEBSITE

LAYOUT FEATURES... KAT-TUN.
Six-member unit of the Johnny's Jr. Regular performers at the Shounen Club either performing on their own or backdancing for other units. The name is an acronym of the member's surname, and it means "cartoon" (each members like manga (comics). Members are Kazuya Kamenashi , Jin Akanishi, Junnosuke Taguchi, Kouki Tanaka, Tatsuya Ueda, and Yuichi Nakamaru. This group was formed by Koichi Domoto of Kinki Kids.
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WEBMISTRESS is Ami-chan.
20-year-old Johnny's fan from Jakarta, Indonesia. Particularly crazy about KAT-TUN (Junnosuke Taguchi is her favorite, although she adores them as a group more than individually) amongst the units in the Juniors.
Receives the show transmission through NHK World Premium Channel, every Sunday morning at 08:50 a.m., Indonesia time (minus 2 hrs from Japan's time).
Since the webmistress is not Japanese, please pardon any mistakes she makes when writing in Japanese.
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Picture scanned by Feli from PERSON magazine (issue Dec '02). HTML by Fio. Design by Ami-chan.



"Za Shounen Club" News
Friday, 4 April 2003

ANNOUNCEMENT!

This news is taken from the NHK World Premium Website.
Next week Saturday, 13 April 2003:

Sunday Pop Music JST 22:05-22:58
Previous "The Shonen club" and "BEAT MOTION" join as one program. Twice a month, Johnny’s Jr., an idol group, with many fans ranging from the teens to the 20’s, will bring a song and dance entertainment show on NHK Hall's stage. Once a month, new artists from a broad range of music genre, and also those artists who already have had big hits will together guest star in this Japanese pop music entertainment program.

In Indonesian time (WIB) and also Thailand, it will be 20.05 (8.05 PM). Singapore and the Philippines, 21.05.

The concept is still very unclear... because this seems to be the integration of two shows, with two different concepts and two different hosts. I will have to see for myself to make sure how this show actually goes.

Jya, minna, tanoshimini shite kudasai! ^_^