Hey funn, hope for you! The paper specifically mentioned that UMG invited S'pore, M'asia, Thailand, TW, HK and Korea press. And the article is quite illuminating! Apparently he 'shoots' a different concert merchandise a day, like on that day it was concert tees. People who get them are so lucky!

Busy with the filming of taiga 'Ryoma Den' for the past one and a half years, Japanese 'heavenly status' singer Fukuyama Masaharu had four end-of-year concerts last week to 'diva-ishly' declare his return to the music scene. He not only 'exposed' his 'butt' and touched himself, causing the largely female audience to go crazy.

The concert, named as 'Fukuyama Daikanshasai', happened last Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at Pacifico Yokohama in Yokohama, Japan.

Last Tuesday, Fukuyama Masaharu's record company invited about 30 reporters from 6 countries: Singapore, Malaysia, HK, Taiwan, Korea and Thailand to watch the concert, and held a simple press conference in the afternoon on that day. Fukuyama Masaharu thanked the press in person.

He also revealed to the local press that he had transited at Singapore before, and later we understood from his manager that Fukuyama Masaharu was returning to Japan from Europe when he passed by Singapore and was even recognised by fans at Changi Airport, which was a pleasant surprise for him.

Although the concert only started at 6.30pm, even at 2pm there were fans braving the 10 degrees cold weather to queue outside.

From our understanding, Fukuyama Masaharu's concert tickets are difficult to obtain, the 40,000 tickets from the 4 days were sought after by 200,000 people online.

The stage has a T-shaped extended platform and 9 elevator-platoforms. At the back of the stage there were audience seated as well, called 'stage back' by Fukuyama Masaharu.

The concert lasted for more than 3hrs and was a testiment of Fukuyama Masaharu's high status in the Japanese audience's hearts. The opening song 'Hey' had the whole audience standing throughout, doing the synchronised finger-pointing action.

Later there was the towel flinging action, and although most of the audience were holding Fukuyama Masaharu's best album 'The Best Bang!!''s new towel, he still nicely (for lack of a better word oops) said 'If you are still using last year's towel, it's okay!'

While performing 'Peach!!', Fukuyama Masaharu and the backup singers all donned G-strings and 'exposed' their 'butts'; Fukuyama Masaharu's 'butt' even had the words 'Congrats to Kuwata Keisuke for performing on Kouhaku!'

Actually they are merely fake 'butts', because butts and peaches look similar from the outside, hence Fukuyama Masaharu wears it during this song for effect.

The concert also has interactive components, including 'shooting' concert merchandise to the audience. Apparently the merchandise differs each night, last Tuesday it was T-shirt.

While singing Tsuioku No Ame No Naka, he even threw cups of water down the stage, making the audience wet. Apparently this is Fukuyama Masaharu's signature move and is immensely popular especially duing summer outdoor concerts.

Although it was winter, and indoors, the action still heated up the atmosphere and everyone was fighting to get the cups thrown by Fukuyama Masaharu.

- During the funny clips that he shown to the audience, he say that exposing himself is to "service" the audience!

- He say this at the end of the clip. He say that I have been focusing on advertisement and filming for the past 1 and 1/2 year and

I know that the fans are waiting for me

- He also say that he feels special standing on the stage as today is the first time he participated in a music event after 1 year or more.

He will challenge his limits and maintain his energy till the end in order reward everyone

Additional note: The Best Bang!!! will be on sales in Singapore on Feb 23rd