Popular idol group Arashi will showcase their special segment titled "Arashi no Tohoku Mirai Tabi" on Fuji TV's special live broadcast music program "THE MUSIC DAY Ongaku no Chikara" on July 12. For this special, the members each visited a different part of the disaster-struck Tohoku region. Arashi, who visited the region 2 years ago and last year as the main personalities of Fuji TV's "24-Hour TV" program, will show the "future" of the Tohoku region as it recovers from the March 11 earthquake tsunami disaster in 2011.

Member Aiba Masaki will assume the role of the train conductor of the popular Sanriku Railway for a day, while Ohno Satoshi documents the life of a father and son who do hotate (scallop) fishing, and he also attempts hotate fishing himself. Meanwhile, member Ninomiya Kazunari revives his popular "24-Hour TV" segment "Ninomiya Kazunari no Nihon Chousa" specially for Tohoku. 

Furthermore, member Matsumoto Jun reunited with the wind ensemble from a high school in Miyagi Prefecture which he performed with last year, and conducts them again. On the other hand, Sakurai Sho will meet the members of the group known as "The Future Nadeshiko Japan" who Sakurai played soccer together back in 2012, again. 

Arashi, who has performed mini-concerts in Miyagi and Iwate since the disaster, performed their concert this year in Fukushima for the first time. After performing more than 10 hit songs including "Kotoba Yori Taisetsu na Mono" and "Dare Mo Shiranai", they shook hands with every person that came to their concert. Sakurai commented, "Even though it was only for a short time, I had a lot of fun with everyone here. I hope you will all look over our smiling faces." 

Source: Oricon Style