NHK announced�that Arashi who will be the host for the white team on this year's 'Kohaku Uta Gassen'. �The group will also be the presenters for a corner to support Tohoku region.
The corner is titled 'Ashita wo Utaou. ~Nippon no Arashi 'Furusato'~'. �Arashi member, Sakurai Sho will show his live piano performance to "Furusato" which is the image song for this year's Kohaku. �With Sakurai's piano performance, other Arashi members and the artists who will participate in Kohaku will sing in the chorus.
The piano Sakurai will be playing was being used at a junior high school in Fukushima prefecture for a long time. However, on March 11th, when they were having a graduation ceremony, it was damaged due to the Tsunami from the Tohoku earthquake. �After the earthquake, a local piano tuner spent six months fixing the piano. �It has now become a symbol of recovery.
Sakurai commented, "The piano that has recovered after half a year. �It still has many scars on it, but, rings out the pure timbres. With the thoughts of the piano tuner, Endo-san and the children in Fukushima, I would like to perform 'Furusato'."
Source: Sanspo + NHK
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