Tomoyuki Yara

Name: Tomoyuki Yara
Birth Date: 1 February 1983
Birth Place: Chiba, Japan
Blood Type: AB
Zodiac: Aquarius
Nicknames: Yara, Yaracchi, Yaraemon etc.
Height: 165cm
Weight: 51kg
Shoe Size: 26cm
Character: Cheerful, serious when doing things and not afraid of strangers. He can even talk a lot with a person he met for the first time, so he has a lot of friends.
Good Points: He's a good and cheerful person.
Bad Points: He gets sick of things easily and likes to sleep.
Skills: Front and back-flip, swimming, basketball, skiing etc.
Hobbies: Listening to music, skiing, water sports, dancing, swimming etc.
Schools: Graduated from Takahama Kindergarten, Takahama Primary School, Takahama Junior High School and Chiba Municipal Inage Senior High School (Public).
Favorite Food: Barbequed meat
Favorite Colors: Orange, Green and Red.
Favorite Sports: Baseball and basketball.
Favorite Season: Summer
Favorite Words: "Guts" and "Fight".
Favorite Brands: PUMA, STUSSY, Marusaki Sports, CHROME HEARTS etc.
Favorite Thing: Perfume
Favorite Subject: Physical Education
Attractive part of his body: His "cat-like" eyes.
Family Members: Father, mother, grandmother and elder sister.
Best Friends: Shingo Machida (MA), Tsuyoshi Yonehana (MA), Sho Sakurai (ARASHI) and Satoshi Oono (ARASHI).
Ideal Type of Girl: Active, gentle, with shoulder-length hair, big eyes, small face, generous... and lots more... but not talkative girls or girls who act cute.
First Love: Primary 3
Childhood Dream: To be Ultraman.
Dream: To create music.
Jr. History: 23 April 1995 joined Johnny's Jimusho.
First appearance in magazine: July 1995 issue of Wink up.
Respected Seniors: Masahiro Nakai (SMAP) and Yuuki Kohara (Ex-MA).
Musicals:
KYO TO KYO (1997 and 1998)
PLAYZONE '00 -THEME PARK-
MILLENNIUM SHOCK (2000)
PLAYZONE '01 -NEW CENTURY EMOTION-
Christmas Box (2001)
SHOW Geki . SHOCK (2001 ~ 2002)
PLAYZONE '02 -Aishi-
My Mirage (2002)
Haru wa Ranman (2003)
Madam Aoki Special ~Aoki-san Ka no Oku-san~ (2003)
PLAYZONE '03 -VACATION-
Shocking SHOCK (2004)
Manatsu no Yoru no Yume (2004)
MY MIRAGE2 (2004)
Sukapan (2004)
Dinner Shows:
Akira Akasaka X'mas Dinner Show (2000)
Akira Akasaka & MA 2001 X'mas Dinner Show
Akira Akasaka & MA X'mas Dinner Show (2002)
Noriyuki Higashiyama Dinner Show (2002)
Concerts:
KinKi Kids US
3 days Panic! KinKi Kids at TOKYO DOME '98-'99
V6 HAPPY at SAITAMA SUPER ARENA '00.9.10
KinKi Kids Winter Concert 2000
J-FRIENDS Count Down From Tokyo 2000
KinKi Kids Asia Tour Concert 2001
KinKi Kids DOME CONCERT "Hey! Minna Genki Kai?" 2001
J-FRIENDS Count Down Concert 2001
TOKIO 2002 ASIA TOUR -5 AHEAD-
TOKIO LIVE TOUR 2003 ~glider~
KinKi Kids 24/7 G TOUR 2003~2004
Kouichi Domoto Special Spring Tour 04 etc.
Events:
Johnny's Dai Undoukai 2002 etc.
Dramas:
Densetsu no Kyoushi (2000)
Shounen Taiya (2001)
Ofukuro Series 17 ~Ofukuro no Osekkai~ (2001)
Ofukuro Series 18 ~Zoku Ofukuro no Osekkai~ (2003)
Short Dramas:
BOYS . BE...Jr. (1998, Episode 6)
Saiaku no Deeto (Episode 15) etc.
Variety Shows:
MUSIC STATION
THE Yoru mo Hippare!
Music Jump
8 Jida J
Yattaru J
The Shounen Club
Sedai Mitsurin~Generation Jungle~
Shounentai Yume
Shounentai Yume 2
Shounentai Yume 3 etc.

More about Tomoyuki Yara

- Yara's weight at birth was 4000mg.
- He was born on Tuesday.
- His name is the combination of both his father and mother's names.
- He likes Ultraman when he was young. When he went shopping with his mother, he always insisted on buying am Ultraman toy, so he always have a toy after every trip to the department store!
- Not long after joining Johnny's, he got an appearance in MUSIC STATION.
- He joined Johnny's the same years as Hideaki Takizawa and Tsubasa Imai (Tackey&Tsubasa), and because of that, he was always a team with them when they first joined Johnny's.
- He went to Disneyland every week when he was young, and that's why he's very familiar with the place.
- He likes dancing very much. Once, he and his friends danced non-stop for 7 hours at a car park outside a closed store.
- Dislikes winter, frog, cockroach, natto, tomato, prank calls, being called "Yaraemon" etc.
- He got full marks for his driving theory test.
- Likes to keep his private life a bit mystery, so as to let his fans feel curious about him.
- His first photo shoot session was with Tsuyoshi Kusanagi etc, for Wink up July 1995 issue.
- He lives with his family.
- Wanted to act in Ultraman series.
- Became a member of Musical Academy in 1999.
- Likes to listen to ghost stories, even though he's admitted that he's timid.
- He once went to Michael Jackson's concert with his mother.
- Subjects that he's good at are Physical Education, English and Music.
- He once stayed for a while with his grandfather in Okinawa when he was two years old.
- (In an interview with Wink up) His wish is to be an invisible man and a ganguro girl.