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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 63. Chapters: Arashi, KAT-TUN, Kazuya Kamenashi, Kanjani Eight, Satoshi Ohno, SMAP, Johnny's Jr., Jin Akanishi, KinKi Kids, Toma Ikuta, NEWS, Tomohisa Yamashita, Tokio, Ryosuke Yamada, Johnny & Associates, Koichi Domoto, Masahiko Kondo, Hey! Say! JUMP, Kanjani Sentai Eight Ranger, Tsuyoshi Domoto, Kanjani Eight discography, Kota Yabu, V6, Shuji to Akira, Tackey & Tsubasa, Shonentai, List of when Johnny's joined the Johnny's-Jimusho, Hikaru Genji, Yuri Chinen, Tegomass, Yuto Nakajima, NYC, Mizuki Sano, Hikaru Yaotome, Yuma Nakayama, Ryutaro Morimoto, Tsubasa Imai, Yuma Nakayama w/B.I.Shadow, Shunsuke Kazama, Keito Okamoto, Johnnys, Hironori Kusano, Ya-ya-yah, Daiki Arioka, K.K.Kity, Kitty GYM, Four Leaves, Yuki Kohara. Excerpt: Arashi, literally Storm) is a Japanese boy band formed under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates, which announced the formation of the group on September 15, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The group was initially signed to Pony Canyon and released one studio album and six singles-beginning with their 1999 eponymous debut single-before moving to the Johnny's subsidiary label J Storm in 2001, which was initially set up for their succeeding releases. While their debut single debuted atop the Oricon weekly chart selling a little over half a million copies, the group subsequently faced slowly declining sales. With the release of their eighteenth single "Love So Sweet", Arashi began gaining commercial success as "Love So Sweet" was used as the opening theme song for the high-rating drama Hana Yori Dango 2, making it one of the top five best-selling singles of 2007 in Japan and the group's first single to exceed 400,000 copies sold overall in nearly seven years. For the next two years, Arashi gained a number of achievements and records as they became the first artist to place the top two rankings on the Oricon singles yearly chart for two consecutive years with their singles "Truth/Kaze no Muko e" and "One Love" in 2008 and "Believe/Kumorinochi, Kaisei" and "Ashita no Kioku/Crazy Moon (Kimi wa Muteki)" in 2009, simultaneously topped the 2009 Oricon singles, album and music DVD yearly charts, and became the third artist in Oricon history to monopolize the top three best-selling singles of the year. In 2010, all six of Arashi's singles ranked within the top ten of the Oricon singles yearly chart, and their million-selling studio album Boku no Miteiru Fukei was named the best-selling album of the year in Japan. Johnny & Associates announced the group's debut on September 15, 1999 through a press conference aboard a cruise ship off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii. Then-president Johnny Kitagawa chose five trainees from the Johnny's Jr. division of the agency to become the