Hideaki Takizawa, one of Japan's most famous performing arts firms, announced on its official website on November 1 that Hideaki Takizawa, who has been a representative director of Jenis Island since 2019, will step down and that Kuihiko Inohara, will take over the position.
According to the official website, Hideaki Takizawa resigned in mid-September, and although the firm offered to stay, it also decided to respect his ideas.
On September 26, the board of directors of the firm's firm approved Hideaki Takizawa's resignation as president of Jenis Island, and at the end of October, Hideaki Takizawa resigned from all positions in Jenis and officially withdrew.
Hideaki Takizawa has been the president of Jenis Island since January 2019, and is mainly responsible for the cultivation of 300 Jenis Jr. and the discovery of new generation artists.
In July 2019, Johnny Kitagawa passed away. In September of the same year, Hideaki Takizawa became the vice president of the Jenis Office.
Since taking office, Hideaki Takizawa has been committed to nurturing new talent, and the two duos Snowman and SixTONES, which have gradually become the pillars of the firm, were both launched by Hideaki Takizawa in 2020.
Hideaki Takizawa himself was selected to become a member of the Jenis Office in 1995, and then partnered with Tsubasa Imai to form the Taki and Tsubasa group. The group once enjoyed great popularity before disbanding in 2018.
Ikoya Kuaihiko, who succeeded Hideaki Takizawa, was born in 1976 and belongs to the V6 group of Denis.
The group has a total of 6 members, Masayaki Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nagano, Kuaihiko Inohara, Tsuyoshi Morita, Ken Miyake, and Junichi Okada, who officially debuted in 1995 and disbanded in 2021.
In addition to being a member of an idol group, Kuihiko Inohara's activities have also appeared in TV dramas and variety shows, and he has also served as a host.
Therefore, Inohara is very strong in coordination and personal experience, and he will continue to devote himself to the cultivation of new talents in Jenis while developing his personal acting work.
As for the specific reasons for Hideaki Takizawa's resignation, the firm said that it could not express his opinion on behalf of Hideaki Takizawa himself.
However, in the investigation by the Japanese media, Hideaki Takizawa submitted his resignation through a lawyer, and he himself did not express any views on it, nor did he plan to hold a press conference.
According to Hideaki Takizawa's acquaintances, Hideaki Takizawa had the intention to quit the company as early as 2017 when the group disbanded. However, the late President Kitagawa made a reservation, and Hideaki Takizawa has since become president of Jenis Island.
In addition, in terms of the choice of the timing of his resignation, some people from the Jenis firm said that the idol group created by Hideaki Takizawa will be out of his management two years after his debut.
Groups like Snowman and SixTONS have matured, and the seven-piece group Travis Japan, a seven-piece group of Denis Jr., went to Los Angeles to study abroad under the planning of Hideaki Takizawa, and also made their worldwide debut in October this year.
In this way, Hideaki Takizawa, who already had no nostalgia for the Jenis office, could not find a reason to stay in the firm.
However, there are other accounts for Hideaki Takizawa's resignation, in fact, when Hideaki Takizawa retired, there were rumors in the Japanese media that he had a discord with the current president, Johnny Kitagawa niece Keiko Fujishima.
Before Johnny Kitagawa died, the rivalry between Keiko Fujishima and the well-known agent Mitomo Iijima over the issue of presidential succession became fierce, and eventually Miichi Iijima withdrew.
And Fujishima Keiko's personal style has been criticized by Japanese entertainment, and there are also rumors that Johnny Kitagawa wants to take Hideaki Takizawa as his adopted son, which is strongly opposed by Fujishima Keiko.
At present, the two combinations of Snowman and SixTONES, which Hideaki Takizawa personally held, have also been transferred from Denis Island to the headquarters of Denis, and Hideaki Takizawa seems to be very dissatisfied with this.
As for Hideaki Takizawa's plans after retiring from the company, it is still unclear, but because he has announced his retirement from the entertainment industry in 2018, it is unlikely to return to the screen.
However, since Hideaki Takizawa himself is also very capable of planning and production, it is very likely that he will work behind the scenes in the future.
Others recalled an outdoor adventure show Hideaki Takizawa participated in in 2013, when he expressed a keen interest in volcanic exploration.
At that time, Hideaki Takizawa also established a good relationship with experts in volcanic research, so some speculated that he might concentrate on volcanic exploration related activities in the future.
For Hideaki Takizawa's withdrawal, many Chinese fans also expressed regret.
There are also fans who wish Hideaki Takizawa, after all, there has been no personal life when he was in Jenis, and now Hideaki Takizawa is forty years old, and everyone hopes that he can form his own family.
Looking at the Jenis Office, Jenis Office lost two leading figures Johnny Kitagawa and Mari Kitagawa in 2019 and 2021, when it was Hideaki Takizawa who was under pressure to provoke the girder.
Hideaki Takizawa's efforts in the past few years are obvious to all, and most of the male protagonists in this year's October Japanese drama are from Jenis.
For example, Shiyo Hirano of "Fraud Hunter", Meguro Renren of "Silent", Kaito Takahashi of "Boyfriend Arrival", Ryosuke Yamada of "Offering Killing Intent for Dear Me", and Yuta Tamamori of "Prayer Medical Record Book" are all new generation idols of Jenis.
After SMAP and Arashi suspended their activities one after another, Hideaki Takizawa can be said to have spared no effort to create opportunities for new actors.
However, now that Hideaki Takizawa has also decided to leave the Jenis Office, and Kuaihiko Inohara's experience is still shallow, whether the Jenis Office can still maintain its position as the leader in the industry has once again become a topic of concern.
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