On May 28th, 15 talents from Up-Front Agency went to the disaster stricken area from the Great Tohoku Earthquake as part of their �Ganbarou Nippon Ai wa Katsu Project�.
The talents paid a vist to Kleenex Stadium Miyagi, home of pro-baseball team Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Before the game between Tohoku Rakuten and Hanshin, the group held a charity handshake event, fundraising activities, and sang �Ai wa Katsu� (Love Wins) together with the 20,000 people in the stands.
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The members participating were: the author behind the charity song �Ai wa Katsu� that is on sale digitally and will be released on CD on June 22nd; KAN (48), Kato Noriko (38), Dream Morning Musume�s Nakazawa Yuko (37) , Yasuda Kei (30), Iida Kaori (29), Ishikawa Rika (26), Yoshizawa Hitomi (26) and Kusumi Koharu (18), Morning Musume�s Niigaki Risa (22), soloist Matsuura Aya (24), Berryz Koubou�s Shimizu Saki (19), Tokunaga Chinami (19), Kumai Yurina (17) and Sugaya Risako (17), and rookie Kikkawa Yuu (19) who just debuted this year.
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Before singing, Kato and Nakazawa greeted everyone, �We hope that today brings everyone just a bit more power. The 15 of us came here to sing with all of you. We�ve been thinking about what we can do through songs. Currently we�re seeing everyone�s smiles today and we�ve also learned the importance of a smile. Let�s all do our best together so that there can be more smiles�.
Matsuura also sent a message to everyone, �I think there are still many more people who are troubled than we can imagine. All of Japan is doing their best, so let�s try to endure for a little longer�.
Source: Oricon
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