is a member of the

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group

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, from

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, Inc.

Biography

Kato was born in

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, Japan, but he grew up in

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and Yokohama-shi. He joined

on April 17, 1999 when he was 11 years-old. As a junior he was a member of the organizations Best Beat Boys (B.B.B.), Boys Be Ambitious (B.B.A.), Best Beat Dancing (B.B.D.), Beautiful American Dreams (B.A.D.), J-support and K.K.Kity. He later debuted as a member of

in 2003. Along with other NEWS members, he plays the guitar, composing some of NEWS' songs, including his own solo "Kakao" in 2002, which he composed the lyrics to. On 2010, he graduated from the College of Law,

Aoyama Gakuin University is a private Christian university in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Originally established in 1874 by missionaries from the Methodist Episcopal Church, it was reconfigured in its current form in 1949 as part of Aoyama Gakuin. Aoyama Gakuin Universit ...

. On January 28, 2012, he released his first novel, ''Pink to Gray'' and has released a novel a year since.

Works

Dramas

TV Show

Radio

* ''Shiget Together'' (2005–2008, Sundays weekly from 11:00 pm~11:30 pm, FM-FUJI) * ''SoraShige Book'' (2011-, Sundays weekly from 11:00 pm~11:30 pm, FM Yokohama)

Music

Stage plays

Films

* ''Pink and Gray'' (2016) (cameo appearance)

Novels

* ''Pink and Gray'' (Kadokawa Shoten, 2012) * ''Senko Scramble'' (Kadokawa Shoten, 2013) * ''Burn'' (Kadokawa Shoten, 2014) * ''Kasa wo Motanai Aritachi wa'' (Kadokawa Shoten, 2015) * ''tuberose de matteru''【AGE22】(Fusou sha『shu-kan SPA!』, 2016) * ''tuberose de matteru''【AGE32】(Fusou sha, 2017) *''Alternate'' (Shinchosha, 2020)

Short story

*Daiji na mono（Kadokawa Shoten,『shousetsu Yasei jidai』January 2016） *Oresama no iutoori（Kadokawa Shoten,『shousetsu Yasei jidai』August 2016）

Essay

*Cuba no reimei（Asahi shinbun sha『shousetu Tripper』spring edition 2016）

Serialization

*Wagahai wa Shige de aru（Johnny's web, 2005 – 2008） *Aoi hitorigoto（SHuei sha『Myojo』July 2006 – June 2011） *photo shigenic（wani books『Wink Up』December 2007 – March 2016） *Girl Friends（Shuei sha『Myojo』May 2012 – ） *Shigeaki no cloud（Johnny's web, November 2015 – ） *dekiru koto nara steed de（Asahi shinbun sha『shousetu TRIPPER』Winter edition 2016 – ）

Productions

* ''Kasa wo Motanai Aritachi wa'' (2016) as Original work * ''Pink and Gray'' (2016) as Original work映画『ピンクとグレー』公式サイト
(Japanese) 映画『ピンクとグレー』 Official Site

References

External links

Johnny & Associates site
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