Johnny's Jimusho announces the impending closure of official websites for Inagaki Goro, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi & Katori Shingo

Johnny's Jimusho announced via its official website "Johnny's net" on 4 September that the official sites of former SMAP members Inagaki Goro, Kusanagi Tsuyoshi and Katori Shingo will be closed with effect from 8 September when their management contracts with the agency expire. In the announcement, the agency also thanked the fans for supporting the three of them over such a long period of time and asked for the public's continued support of the trio in future as they embark on the next stage of their careers.

Following the trio's departure from the agency, all of their regular TV programmes will continue airing with the exception of TV Asahi's variety show "SmaSTATION!!" featuring Katori.

Sources: Nikkansports / Sanspo