500 Facts
Interviewing Matsumoto Jun
1. What is your charm point?
A: my eyes.

2. Do you have any health concerns?
A: getting injured and being sick.

3. What do you do to prevent from getting sick?
A: I wash my hands frequently.

4. What are your bad habits?
A: I touch my face frequently.

5. What hair style would you like to challenge?
A: I want to grow long hair.

6. What are your eye sights?
A: 0.2(L) 0.3 (R). I wear glasses at school because I can't read the words that are written on the black board.

7. How many sit-ups can you do?
A: 50

8. How many push-ups can you do?
A: 10

9. How long does it take you to run 50m?
A: 7.7 seconds.

10. What do you want to overcome the most?
A: Because my body is fragile, I want to be stronger.

11. What did you have for dinner last night?
A: BBQ pork.

12. What did you have for breakfast this morning?
A: Milk.

13. What time do you usually wake up?
A: 7 a.m.

14. How many alarm clock do you have?
A: one alarm clock, plus my parent's voices.

15. What is the first thing that you do after you are awake?
A: I go to the washroom.

16. How long does it takes you to get ready (i.e. time elapse from the moment you wake up to the moment you leave home)?
A: my fastest record is in one minute, but I usually spend an hour.

17. What do you dream about when you sleep?
A: I don't dream. I'm the type of person who sleeps without having dreams.

18. What is your favorite food?
A: BBQ pork and salad.

19. How long does it take you to bath?
A: 30 min

20. How many times do you bath in a day?
A: twice. I take a shower in the morning and I bathe during the night.

21. Which part of you get washed first?
A: my head.

22. What is the duration of your longest phone conversation?
A: 6 hours.

23. What do you do before you go to sleep?
A: I turn off the lights.

24. How do you sleep?
A: I lean on the left side of my body.

25. Without being annoyed, what food can you eat on a daily basis?
A: noodles with soy.

26. In the middle of the night, what food do you have cravings for?
A: it's still noodles with soy.

27. What is your favorite home made dish?
A: fish.

28. Do you have any Siblings?
A: a 19 years old elder sister.

29. What is your favorite television show?
A: right now I like Namida wo fuite.

30. What is your favorite film?
A: Lately, I didn't see any film

31. Whose CD you listen to the most?
A: Misia, Arashi etc.

32. How do you spend your time while you are riding on trains/cars/automobiles?
A: I read books or I play with my cell phone.

33. What books have you read recently?
A: ?

34. What is the funniest thing that you have heard recently?
A: My friends secrets.

35. What makes you mad?
A: The cold weather.

36. What makes you cry?
A: When people talk about life. I got really emotional that I cried.

37. What makes you happy?
A: getting a perfect score for my math exam.

38. What did you buy recently?
A: black/gray colored shoes.

39. What do you do to reduce stress?
A: singing Karaoke.

40. Where do you like to spend most of your time?
A: In my friend's room.

41. What country you want to go the most?
A: India.
42. Are there any bad aspects about your room?
A: none.

43. Do you want to live by yourself?
A: Yes.
44. What is the place you want to live the most?


45. What is the biggest lie you have ever told?
A: none. I don't tell lies.

46. What is the biggest regret in your life?
A: my narrow thinking.

47. What clothing do you want to try the most?


48. What is your favorite season?
A: Summer.

49. What are your treasures?
A: Friends, families, time and myself.

50. What you want the most?
A: a girlfriend.
51. What do you want to achieve?
A: be able to drive. to get a license at the age of 18.

52. What was your biggest injury?
A: Being hit by a car at a young age.

53. What do people call you at home?
A: Jun.
54. What is your favorite automobile?
A: car.

55. When do you feel self-admiration?
A: when people look at me.

56. What do you take with you when you leave home?
A: cell, wallet, key to my home.

57. What are your ring tones?
A: it depend on who call me. my friends put me as "A.RA.SHI" ring tone.

58. What do you collect?
Karaoke tapes that I got from the recording studio.

59. Do you follow any winter trends?
A: none.

60. Are you interested in anyone?
A: no, yes, I don't know [MJ: what a realistic answer!]

61. What would you say to someone of your interest?
A: let me bring you happiness.

62. What you expect to hear from someone who is interested in you?
A: anything that could get through me.. even "baka" is fine.

63. The type of girl you like?
A: frank and honest.

64. What kind of girl do you like?
A: quiet

65. Which part of the girl attracts you the most?
A: her lips.

66. What would you give her for X-Mas?
A: maybe a ring... anything that she can carry with her easily.

67. Where would you take her out?
A: places with romantic lighting.

68. How long would you wait for her to show up on a date?
A: If she'll show up for sure, I can wait for hours.

69. What would you wear on your date?
A: similar to what I would normally wear.

70. What you hope your girlfriend won't do?
A: tell lies.
71. If you were a girl, which member would you go out with?
A: Me.

72. What would you do if a girl that you like is also the same girl that is liked by another member in Arashi?
A: things would be as they normally would, but I'll work hard to win her over.

73. If you were to get dumped by your girlfriend what would you do?
A: I'll be very sad, then I'll complain to my friends.

74. If you got into a fight with your girlfriend, what would you do?
A: I'll apologize to her if I am the one at fault. If she was the one at fault, I'll create a situation that would give her a chance to apologize.

75. While you were on your date, if some strange yet strong guy become a threat to the both of you, what would you do?
A: I'll protect her

76. At what age do you want to get married?
A: around 30..., or as soon as I reached 18.

77. How many kids would you have?
A: a girl and two boys.

78. What names would you give them?
A: I can't decide this by myself

79. What do you wish to be if you were to reincarnate?
A: I still want to be a guy

80. Which animal would you refer yourself as?
A: a turtle.

81. If you were a president-like figure, what would you do?
A: I want to solve the problems of this world.

82. If you were to start life again, at which age would you want it to begin?
A: So far, any age is fine.

83. If you had a month of vacation where would you go?
A: I want to travel by myself; it could be within Japan or anywhere over sea.
84. If the world is to end, what would you do and with whom?
A: I want to be with my friends and we'll have fun together.

85. If you received 300 000 000 yen, how would you spend it?
A: I'll use half of the money to buy a house, and I'll put the rest in the bank.

86. How did you feel when you first became a jr?
A: I enjoy dancing because it makes me happy

87. What makes you feel good about being part of Arashi?
A: Everyday.

88. When do you feel it's great to work as Arashi?
A: When we all reach for the same goal.

89. What is bad about being a part of Arashi?
A: none.

90. What makes you stand out among your group members?
A: I devoted the most time thinking about Arashi related stuff.

91. Do you know your members' secrets?
A: actually, we are not that brave.

92. If you didn't joined Johnny's what would you be doing?
A: I'll be a regular high school student.

93. What is your favorite line in Arashi's songs?
A: "Smile again, arigato"

94. What do you hope Arashi will accomplish 10 years from today?
A: to be known by the entire world.

95. Disliked subject at school?
A: Mathematics.

96. What is your favorite subject at school?
A: Mathematics, lately I have better understanding, thus I find it to be interesting 97. What do you worried about?
A: the future

98. What have you learned lately?
A: knowledge about shoes shining.

99. Have you done anything that make you ashamed?
A: none.

100. 10 years later, what would you say to yourself?
A: Don't be lazy, must work hard!

Date of article: Jan 2001
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