Kindai Sept., 2000

[My oldest memory]
I remember this one scene in my kindergarten days.  It was that my dad came to pick me up for the first time.  It was raining and he came for some reason....even though it was my mom who always came to do that.
He didn't do anything special but just came to pick me up but I remembered it so vividly still now. It's maybe because I was so happy to see my dad doing that for me at that time.

[My childhood]
I remember....that I played with an ultraman doll or something like that (laugh). I didn't like the kindergarten...I don't know why though.  Probably it was because I had to get up early?

[Naughty BOY]
When I was in elementary school, I was just a naughty boy.  Around at nine or so at night, even after all the teachers went home, my tutor often told me and my mom to come and see him at school. Why? It was because I kept doing bad things like making holes on the wall of the school gym, and my tutor got mad at me saying "You should repair it by your own!!!" What a terrible kid I was back then, right? (laugh)

[Hands-off policy]
My parents didn't say much about what I did.  Let's see...they allowed me to do whatever I liked.  But instead, they made me take any responsibilities for what I did. Anyway, they took so-called 'hands-off
policy' in terms of disciplining me. I thought that my parents should be spoiling me in those days but I now feel that they were, conversely,
strict because being responsible for any action we take must be hard for kids.

[The youngest child]
I had lots of disadvantages to be the youngest child.  Like....that I had to wear hand-me-down clothes.  Because my elder brother always bought new ones while I wore his used ones, I felt bad (laugh).  In addition, there are not many photos of my childhood. So I asked my parents why.
Then they told me like "Because there are two kids already before you, we got bored at taking such photos."  .....Well, to all mothers and fathers in the world, please take photos of your third child, too, as well as your first and second! (laugh)

[Family]
We went on a trip just once. It was when I was small...maybe to Izu.  As for my family, we didn't get together that often.  In summer vacation, for example, each one used to do something different by his/her own.
But just recently, all of my family got together after such a long time we did last time. Then, my brother, who lives by himself now, seems to read idol magazines once in a while so angrily said, "Don't speak about me!  If you do, then say something nice about me, ok!?  Why the hell are you saying that I often hit you!"  Then, he murmured "I sound as if I were a bad guy!"  .....it took such a while for him to realize it, I have to say! (laugh)  But we had fun together on that day. After our parents
went to bed, me, my sister, brother and my brother's girl friend
talked a lot.  I enjoyed being with my family.

[My secret memory]
This is a story when I just started working as Jr.  We, Jr, usually used our senior Johnny's people's second hand dance shoes.  One day, I found one senior's shoes in his concert. I thought like, "Oh....this person is so famous.  I'll take it home then!" and I really did it although we had to
use those shoes in turn with other Jrs (laugh).  I still keep the shoes in my shoe cupboard.

[Looking forward to future]
I had lots of happy memories in the past. But I don't feel like going back to my old days because I'm sure that I'll be able to have happier experiences in the future.  We've got our lives in order to our own happiness.