Koyama was honored!!!

[masuda_takahits]

I am very proud of Koyama now!!! Koyama was honored by his college as a "model student"!

Below is a translation by me of the news from Daily Sports.


Keiichiro Koyama (22ys old), a member of NEWS, attend the graduation ceremony of Meiji University, which was held at Nippon Budokan in Kitanomaru, Tokyo. In 2003 He entered in in School of Arts and letters, department of History and Geography, and he managed himself to do both his work and study well. So he was selected to a model student.

In Japan, a proverb "manage both study and sports" exists. And he managed bot study and art as an idol.
(sorry, I can't express this word well. It might be a kind of proverb. I just tell you a meaning)
He wore a black suit, and had a diploma and certification of model student, and he looked honorable. Although he was very busy for his work, he studied very hard. And the certification approves how he worked and studied hard. He praised himself, saying "I am great."

He was a freshman when NEWS was made. He mentioned about his 4 years as a college student such as "my fans encouraged me, and my friends helped me. I might not graduate if I was alone". And when he asked about his love affair, he said "I was welcome, but...." he murmured.

In NEWS, several members are still college students. Tomohisa Yamashita (21ys) is in Meiji Univ., School of Commerce. Shigeaki Kato (19ys) is in Aoyama Gakuin Univ., College of Law, Yuya Tegoshi (19ys) is in Waseda Univ. School of Human Sciences. They work and study as hard as Koyama, and their new single CD "Hoshi wo Mezashite" got the 1st rank at the newest ORICON research.
He is going to perform as a leading actor in a musical in June. As he majored in Asian history and geography, he told about his big dream as "I want to be active in the Asian countries".

　ＮＥＷＳの小山慶一郎（２２）が２６日、東京・北の丸の日本武道館で行われた明治大学の卒業式に出席した。２００３年に文学部史学地理学科に入学したが４年間、学業と仕事を両立させたことで模範卒業生にも選ばれた。
　文武両道ならぬ“文芸両道”。黒いスーツの小山の手には、学位記（卒業証書）とともに「卒業生として模範になるもの」に与えられる賞状が誇らしげに握られていた。多忙な芸能活動とともに勉学に励んだ証しに、小山は「すごいですね、僕」と自分を自分で称えてみせた。
　ＮＥＷＳ結成時には１年生。４年間の学生生活には「ファンの人が応援してくれて、友達が支えてくれた。１人では卒業できなかった」と振り返ったが、恋愛だけは「僕はウエルカムだったんですけど…」とモゴモゴ。
　ＮＥＷＳには明大商学部の山下智久（２１）をはじめ、青学大法学部に加藤成亮（１９）、早大人間科学部に手越祐也（１９）が在学中。小山に負けず、仕事と学業を両立させており、最新曲「星をめざして」も最新オリコンで１位が確定した。
　小山自身、６月にはミュージカル初主演も決定。今後は、大学生活で培ったアジアの地理と歴史の知識を生かし、「アジアで活躍したい」とでっかい夢も明かしていた。

Comments

[budiamond.livejournal.com]

Aah~~! Koyama is wonderful, ne~~
He praised himself, saying "I am great."
Haha, such a Koyama thing to do, ne~ ^^; Just like his, "I said Pa! ... I'm cute~"

[masuda-takahits.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! What he is saying is true, he is really cute!^^

[luckypurple.livejournal.com]

Omg *tears of happiness*
he's so smart <3
i'm so damm proud of him!!

thanks for sharing, and btw i'm adding you in my flist
hope u dont mind? arigatou

[masuda-takahits.livejournal.com]

Thank you. ^^
I also added you my list. Yoroshiku ne!

[btrlucktomorrow.livejournal.com]

thank you for translating. i am really happy for koyama. is it okay i added you as a friend? i was reading through your old posts and was really amused by your story. :) its good that you want to continue practicing english. this may be late, but welcome to livejournal!

[masuda-takahits.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about it, I also added you my list.
Thank you! ^^

[pixisity.livejournal.com]

That is so cute and so Koyama-san. I'm glad he's finally graduated - now he can relax a bit...or relax as much as a JE boy can.

Our Shige's gonna be a lawyer huh? That is so cool. Takes a lot of guts and willpower to do that, that's for sure. I can see it now - Shigeaki Kato, famous lawyer and Nobel prize for...something. *laughs* (I know I'm laughing, but I don't doubt our lads will make a difference in their fields. That's why they're JE boys!)

[snowflakezz.livejournal.com]

hi hi it's me again~ XDD

I'm so happy for Keichan <3 <3 <3~~!!!

AND LOL at the "I am so great" XDD that's so like him to say that X)~

uwaaaaa really sugoii!!!!!

history and geography ne ... *i must work hard on history now* XDD~ since i don't take geography classes XDD

love affair eh =XX~~

the musical in june!! will you be going to watch it? XDD~ i'd love to but I can't .. >.<

[chibi-news.livejournal.com]

I'm so proud of Koyama! I know if it was me i probably wouldn't be able to have a career and finish uni like he did haha

He praised himself, saying "I am great."
hahaha it's so like Koyama to say this~ haha Koyama is cute.

Thank you for translating and for sharing~

[only-mimiko.livejournal.com]

Super proud of Koyama! \(=^o^=)/
I'm so happy to hear this.My favorite idol,has worked hard to make his way to be a model student.So I'm going to look up to him and try my best in study too!GANBARIMASU!

[kameringo.livejournal.com]

Hi Ryoko ^^

Thank you for the translation of the news article.

Is it ok if I add you as a friend?

[watchdawurld.livejournal.com]

uwaaah, koyama sugoii~
thank you for the translation, ryoko!! can i call you that?
mind if i add you? i've been dying to find a japanese friend ehehehehe.. and since we both like shige and NEWS..

*is embarrassed*

i wonder what course shige is taking, as in specifically.. is he going to be a lawyer or a persecutor? hmm..

[pinkujisatsu.livejournal.com]

thanks alot for the translation ^o^


I'm SO happy for him... and he looks SO happy ^^!

also very proud of him to be graduated with honours ^^

he worked so hard and he archived it and each day he is getting more and mroe recognition... ^O^!!!!!!!

I'm having a stupid smile on my face while reading thi or watching the clips... ^O^~~~~~~~~

[purebloodqueen.livejournal.com]

I am so frggin' proud of Koyama. :D That's so awesome. ♥ From now on, I'll be serious about my studies. Koyama, thank you for inspiring me. XD ♥ And yes, please be active in Asian countries so that you can visit the Philippines. XDD

I feel that Shige's gonna be a great lawyer. XD

Thank you for the translation! :D ♥

[lydzi-de-galles.livejournal.com]

Aww I'm proud of him :). And he stills is so sweet and humble ^^. Go Koyama-san! We love-you.

[pat-cha-ra.livejournal.com]

Omedetou Kei-chan. I'm very proud of you. ^^

Thank you for translation. <3

[autumncalls.livejournal.com]

yay, im so proud of koyama. wish him the best of luck in life. lol. :)

[bballfreak9289.livejournal.com]

thanks a lot for the translation!! =]

[genki-mt.livejournal.com]

Hi Ryoko I hope you don't mind my addressing you by your given name. Your English just pwns all!! The day I can translate Japanese into English so easily I'll totally go out and celebrate. I cannot believe Koyama said that he's great but then nobody else seems to be surprised at all by this ... so ... "shrugs" Anyway I'm really proud of him and happy for him. And you live near Shige don't you? Oh how lucky you are! If I were you I'd totally be spending my life planning how to accidentally "bump" into Shige ... baby baby baby ... Shige is my favourite next to Koyama. Thank you for translating the article of Koyama's graduation for the rest of us. We truly appreciate it.

[orangeka.livejournal.com]

Kei-chan, sotsugyou omedetou~ ♥
waah. and as a model student too!? I'm so happy for him! :P I'd never survive trying to balance college with work, especially with all the work that Koyama does in dramas, SC, NEWS, and the like.

Thank you so much for translating!
oh, and would you mind if I friended you? ♥

[chazelle.livejournal.com]

sugoi!
these boiz inspire me to study harder.xD

[violomana.livejournal.com]

Awww, I'm so happy for Koyama! He really deserves the recognition and his own praise, lol. ^_^
Thanks for translating! It's also great to finally know what the other members are studying in college as well. Shige in Law?! :O

[jjanichan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this! I was wondering about Koyama's major too, since I heard 'department of literature' but also that his kanji's terrible. I'm rather curious just how terrible it is though!

The japanese education system is rly interesting! It seems very stressful, with the entrance exams and stuff. Do you mind me asking, what's cram school like? Is it like a tuition centre? Can you get into university just by working hard in high school and not attending cram school?

[masuda-takahits.livejournal.com]

I wonder why people suddenly got interest in Koyama's former field recently^^;
Cram school can be considered as tuition centre for those who have already graduated their high school, and for those who are still in the final year at school they only take classes after school or on weekends.
Here not all the people need to go to such school at all.
If people are quite good at study and can pass the entrance exam, they just study by themselves.
And for those who are quite poor at study, they would be still able to enter the lowest universities if they can win their easy exam.
If people are still not enough to pass the exam which is provided by the schools which they want to enter, some of them would go to cram school, and others would hire the private teacher or study by themselves with lots of textbooks.
(Personally when I was in junior high school I went to cram school for 1 year as I wanted to enter the advanced high school, and when I was at that high school, I took 5 days short course at cram school in summer holidays as my college provided unique exam and I wanted to learn about them from that short course)

[jjanichan.livejournal.com]

lol the sudden interest is probably cuz someone asked the qn on news_jpop recently and the rest of us remembered our own doubts about it.
I like lit a lot, so I was pretty excited when I first heard that Koyama took lit as well, but I began to have serious doubts when I heard how bad he is with Kanji. Well, Asian studies is interesting too! I hope he and NEWS put that knowledge to good use by touring Asia soon. ^^
Thanks for taking the time to explain!

[ungalad.livejournal.com]

I've been following several threads about Koyama's major and I finally got here. So he majored in Asian History and Geography and not Literature! I've been mistaken all this time! *shocked* XDDDD Thank you very, very much for your translation (it's enlightened me ;)). ♥