♥Name: Kota Yabu (薮宏太, Yabu Kōta?)♥
♥Profession: Singer♥
♥Date of birth: January 31, 1990 (1990-01-31) (age 18)♥
♥Birthplace: Yokohama City♥
♥Height: 177 cm♥
♥Weight: 53 kg♥
♥Blood type: A♥
♥JPop group Hey! Say! JUMP, Hey! Say! BEST♥
♥Talent agency: Johnny & Associates♥

♥[blue]He looks up to Domoto Koichi of the group Kinki Kids as a mentor.♥


♥On September 23, 2001, he entered Johnny & Associates as a trainee. Inoo Kei, a member of the same group as him, was also there during that time. On April 3 of that same year, he began activities with Ya-Ya-yah starting with a public performance at a KAT-TUN concert. On September 21, 2007, he began performing as a member of Hey! Say! JUMP.♥


♥He became one of the member for Junior Unit Ya-Ya-yah.♥


♥Shōnen Club♥
♥HEY!HEY!HEY! (24 September 2007, 12 November 2007)♥
♥Music Station (26 October 2007)♥
♥Hi! Hey! Say! (3 November 2007 - Ongoing) - Kota Yabu, Hikaru Yaotome♥


♥Ya-Ya-yah (5 January 2003 - 27 October 2007)♥
♥The Shōnen Club (NHK)♥
♥HEY!HEY!HEY! (24 September 2007, 12 November 2007)♥
♥Hi! Hey! Say! (3 November 2007 - Ongoing)♥


♥Stand by me (2003, 2004)♥
♥Dream Boys (2004, 2008)♥






★Name: Yuuri Chinen (知念侑李, Chinen Yūri?)★
★Profession: Actor and Singer★
★Date of birth: November 30, 1993 (1993-11-30) (age 14)★
★Birthplace: Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture★
★Height: 151cm(4ft11in)★
★Weight: 42kg★
★Blood type: A★
★Habit: Sits on Hey! Say! JUMP members' laps and plays with other people's cellphones.★
★Ego: Thinks of himself cute rather than manly due to his size.★
★JPop group Hey! Say! JUMP, Hey! Say! 7★
★Talent agency: Johnny & Associates★
★Shoe size: 23.5 cm★
★Favourite Foods: Gyoza and Cucumber★
★Disliked Foods: Mushrooms, Celery, Green Peppers, Shellfish and Eggplant.★
★Favourite Colour: Green★
★Disliked Colour: Orange. Because it makes his head hurt when he sees it.★
★Hobby: Dancing (Jazz since he was three) and Soccer.★
★Family: Father, Chinen Kou, has received bronze in the Olympic gymnastics games.★
★Favourite Subject: PE because he says he is really good at gymnastics and it makes him look like a hero when he is doing flips. He also likes Social Studies.★
★Disliked Subject: English (He wonders why he has to learn it since he is Japanese.)★
★Strong Point: Challenges are what make him a stronger person.★
★Weak Point: When challenges become too difficult or extreme,he throws them away.★
★Favourite Song: Hitomi no naka no Galaxy by Arashi★
★Admired Senpai: Ohno Satoshi★
★Type of girl he likes: A quick thinker, cute, can dance with him also be fun around with.★


★His father was the Olympics gymnastics bronze medalist, Takashi Chinen. He was taught jazz dance by his mother from an early age.★
★Yuri’s name comes from Yuri Osawa, an announcer whose name his mother liked, but is written with different characters; the yu is a character often used in girl’s names (侑 yū) and the ri is taken from a name his mother thought common among Chinese gold medalist gymnasts (李 lǐ) (from an interview piece in Sports Hochi sold December 5, 2005).★
★He is good at acrobatics and jazz dance, taught to him by his mother. His forte in acrobatics is the turn, which he often performs during songs.★
★He looks up to Satoshi Ohno of the group Arashi as a mentor. He often talks about Satoshi Ohno in his interviews. Once, he was asked that what is his valuable treasure and he answered, "I went to Arashi's Concert and Ohno was throwing out autographed boards. One of the boards came flying to me and I caught it! That is my treasure."★
★He once said that the reason he joined Johnny's Junior is because he adores Ohno Satoshi from Arashi.★


★On June 2, 2003, he entered Johnny & Associates as a trainee. Daiki Arioka, a member of the same group as him, was also there during that time.★

★In 2007, he moved from his hometown of Hamamatsu to the capital, Tokyo, and despite previously having never been involved in it, it was through back-up dancing that his career truly began.
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★On April 3 of that same year, he began activities with Hey! Say! 7 starting with a public performance at a KAT-TUN concert.
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★On September 21, 2007, he began performing as a member of Hey! Say! JUMP.★


★Shōnen Club★
★HEY!HEY!HEY! (24 September 2007, 12 November 2007)★
★Music Station (26 October 2007)★


★Nanako & Nanao (NHK, 2004) as Nanao★
★Yukan Club (NTV, 2007) as Ryota (Episode 2)★
★1 Pound no Fukuin (NTV, 2008) as Yoshihiko (Episode 3)★
★Sensei wa Erai(NTV, 2008)★


★Nin x Nin: The Ninja Star Hattori (Toho, August 28, 2004) as Kenichi Mitsuba★
★Sword of the Stranger (opened September 29, 2007) as Kotaro★


★Playzone 2007: Change 2 Chance (performed with Shonentai, 2007) as Ken★