Popular group SMAP held a live concert at the Workers Stadium in Beijing, thus marking their very first overseas concert!

It was a long-cherished wish for SMAP to hold a live concert overseas. They had originally scheduled a concert in Shanghai last year, which got cancelled twice due to social circumstances. But as they say, the third time's the charm, and the boys managed to wildly rouse their 40,000-member audience. The SMAP members felt like they've made their fans wait a long time, however, as member Nakai Masahiro stated, "It took long time to come this far."

The theme of the concert was "Cheer up Japan! Thank you China! Asia as one!", and the members performed 29 songs over 2 hours. Two of their songs, "Sekai ni Hitotsu dake no Hana" and "Yozora no Mukou", were sung in Chinese, and they also sang a Chinese song called, "The Moon Represents My Heart." During the middle of the concert, popular Taiwanese actress Lin Chi-ling (who's also co-stared with member Kimura Takuya in a Getsu9 drama called "Tsuki no Koibito"), made a guest appearance.

Although�the venue has a capacity for 80,000 people, the audience was limited to 40,000 and 90% were Chinese fans.� 3,000 police officers were stationed at the venue to act as security, but there was no trouble, and Chinese fans finally got to enjoy the SMAP world.

Katori Shingo stated, "I would like to hold live concerts in other Asian countries other than China. �Through this 20th year�anniversary, today is the restart of SMAP."

Source: Sanspo 1 + 2
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