ayumi and hitomi: close friends? [fake article]
 

I was reading hitomi's biography at wikipedia.org and found this:

Avex stock prices dropped hugely when it was rumored that hitomi, along with Ayumi Hamasaki (a close friend of hitomi's), Hiro, Do As Infinity, and Every Little Thing were going to leave Avex if Masato 'Max' Matsuura, was forced out. Matsuura was at that time feuding bitterly with a rival executive, Tomoyuki Yoda, over the company's direction. Yoda adventually stepped down and Matsuura stayed.

Is it true?

If so, that's so cool. My 2 favorite artists! LOL.

ayumi & hitomi: close friends?
 

I was reading hitomi's biography at wikipedia.org and found this:

Is it true?

If so, that's so cool. My 2 favorite artists! LOL.

They have so many things in common. They're beautiful, they make good music, they both work for avex, they're beautiful...

Oops! Didn't even notice I posted 2 times...

Wouldn't be surprised. They have probably been co-workers for years... hitomi longer than Ayu so they probably know each other for about 7 years.

wow.. wikipedia is rather resourceful to have known that...

hmm never heard of Ayu is hitomi's friend, i dunno

maybe an hitomi fan made a mistake

Wow, I like them both... Ayu is sexy as well as Hitomi. It's great to know there are still some artists that are really good friends!=)

Mmm ... Ayu and Kaori Mochida are definitely good friends! I think that she's good friends with hitomi as well. I mean, they will meet indefinitely at Avex. Yup, but I don't think hitomi has appeared on Ayu Ready before? Mmm ... so there's no verification to that. But I think they have to be acquaintances.

It's irritating that we don't know which other celebrities are friends with each other because sometimes, it just seems so ... commercial?

yeah i tihnk kaori mochida and ayu are friends she also friends with kyoko fukada, u could tell from Ayuready, but Ayu has nver invited Hitomo on Ayuready

I also heard that Mika Nakashima and Onitsuka Chihiro are good friends... aaah off topic.

hrm...i doubt we'll ever know. that being wikipedia, anyone could have written that. :(

wasn't hitomi on her maternity leave and taking a break from publicity when AyuReady was airing ? maybe that's the reason why she never appeared on that show ?
but yeah , anyone could have written that on wiki ....

Yeah, hitomi was on maternity leave.

But I do find that a lot of wikipedia info is accurate (though not all the time).

Actually... Wikipedia states that anyone who writes an article at least SHOULD give external links, so it's likely you'll find the site they got the info from if they posted external links. Which they often do.

...

hitomi has a child?

This is like when I discovered KOKIA had a daughter. Awkward moment.

EDIT: Apparently twins! I am so on top of things. =P

:yes

That'd be interesting. Even though I've only heard one of hitomi's songs (yeah don't call me a big fan... :shrug) she's awesome and so is Ayu. I think they'd be great friends. ^_^

I also saw this on wikipedia:

Sooo interesting. Do you have a link to the whole article? and what does hitomi own? :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitomi

I fixed it so the whole thing should appear now.

Wow, that's interesting.. I wonder why we've never heard any of this before. And so Ayu is Christian???

I didn't know Ayu was Christian myself.. though there were rumours. Thanks for the link Ryoko. It's very interesting.

Oh man, didn't know they were this close. Wow, that's awesome. (if it's true)

A duet together would be so cool! My 2 idols together? :yes

I think since their voice has a similar tone it would be rather interesting. It seems they're very close. They're both great fans of Madonna too. Probably that is why they keep working hard to keep at the top even when they're over the average age of most popular artists in Japan.

This article is great. hitomi is indeed a great artist who has a lot of respect from me.

Yeah, it's such a great article. hitomi seems like a very interesting person.

I really do hope the information is true, because it means that one day hitomi and Ayu might have a duet!

a lot of the information is true though, I've seen various sources state that hitomi's kids names are Sumire and Toru, etc. So I'm guessing somebody got this information from a Japanese article or something.

asongforxx: hitomi and Ayu are your idols? That's cool. They're mine as well! hitomi looks soooooo good for not only her age, but for having twins!

Yep, Ayu and hitomi are my 2 idols! Hehe! :)

I agree, hitomi still looks super hot and gorgeous for her age, plus she had twins! Who would have known that with a body like hers!? LOL! :P

Anyone can edit those wikipedia entries. If I wanted to I could go change that entry to read that hitomi and Ayu are Satan-worshipers. I'm highly sceptical.

Yes true. She looks so fit. I can't believe she had two twins. Anyhow I agree that wikipedia is editable but it looks professionally made and there's a lot of reference to articles and stuff.

There are no sources provided. If I edit the page to read "a magazine reported that both Ayumi Hamasaki and hitomi are prominent members of the Shibuya Church of Satan" will you believe it? My opinion is that you guys are being duped.

^LOL yep, the articles seem well written but there seems to be no proof they're true.

Even so, it's pretty interesting info if it REALLY is true.

If not, whoever wrote it was pretty imaginative!

Yeah I agree with you Ryoko. It's an interesting read even so.

VERY interesting indeed, i can't believe my favourite japanese singers are close friends!!! :D

It makes me very happy to know this... It just made my day!! :B :yes

that's good, two cute ladies are good friends...

Everything on wikipedia is edited by normal users so nothing is exactly 'set in stone' like a normal encyclopedia. You must take things on wikipedia with a grain of salt (IE: can't really trust it)

If it's true, something even better.
Max stayed.
And yeah! if it's true, that would be nice.
A Song is born take 2, ~hitomi and Ayu~ rofl.

(WIKIPEDIA) Interesting facts about ayumi hamasaki & hitomi
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitomi

From this wikipedia
we are shown how MUCH CLOSER the relationship between ayu n hitomi !
and I just have known that ayu was suffered from "night blindness"...which cause her of not having a driver license!
also...hitomi is the "director" who gives the idea of every Pre-concert-video in MY STORY TOUR 2005 !!!

ok..these are those articles :

Despite being constantly viewed as rivals, hitomi shares a close friendship with fellow Avex performer Ayumi Hamasaki, the reigning queen of Japanese pop, which dates back to 2000. The two often get together during breaks in TV performances (like the NHK Red And White Song Festivals), and Hamasaki often goes on joyrides with hitomi through hitomi's native Kanagawa countryside, where Hamasaki often enjoys a certain degree of anonymity, either in a car or on motorbike (hitomi is qualified to drive both, while Hamasaki is not allowed to possess any driving licenses because she suffers from a form of night blindness). Hamasaki attended hitomi's wedding, as well as a family function to celebrate the first month of the birth of hitomi's twin children (a ceremony known as the 'Full Moon Celebration'), and is an unofficial 'godmother' to hitomi's children, Toru and Sumire. hitomi and Hamasaki had attempted in the past to write songs together, but the results were unsatisfactory because the two women have very different musical inclinations and directions. Interestingly, it was hitomi's ideas that led to the popular pre-concert video segments in Hamasaki's 'My Story Concert Tour' in 2005, and Hamasaki has often credited hitomi as 'the director ahead of the director'. Also, both hitomi and Hamasaki are Christians, a religious group that is in the minority in Japan where Shinto and Buddhism are dominant.

Despite being forced by injuries to quit soccer in high school, hitomi is still passionate about the game, and reserves a soft spot for central midfielders (having been one herself). In a February 2005 interview, she surprised many with the depth of her knowledge of the European soccer leagues. Her favourite team is English Premier League club Chelsea, which went on to become the champions of England at the end of that season. hitomi's favourite players are Chelsea players Frank Lampard, John Terry, Didier Drogba, Joe Cole, Claude Makelele, Damien Duff, and Eidur Gudjohnsen, and Spanish clubs Real Madrid's French midfielder Zinedine Zidane, FC Barcelona's Brazilian midfielder Ronaldinho, Manchester United's Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo, Arsenal FC's French forward Thierry Henry, Villareal's Argentinian midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme, and AC Milan's Brazilian midfielder Kaka.

In a separate interview, Ayumi Hamasaki made a reference to her close friend's obsession with all things Chelsea. "I don't know much about football or for sports in general, but Hitomi's simply crazy about this team in England, Chelsea, who wear blue. Just a few days ago they lost to this team who wear red, and Hitomi couldn't eat or sleep properly for a couple of days." hitomi and Hamasaki later confirmed that Hamasaki was referring to Chelsea's 1-0 defeat to Manchester United on November 6, 2005; according to hitomi, all she consumed, for 48 hours after the end of the match, were three cans of beer and a peanut.

The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami mentioned, in an interview granted to the American journal "Upstairs" in December 2004, that hitomi is the only Japanese pop personality he pays attention to because of her combination of self-confidence, no-getting-away-from-it sexiness, and the rare, unique honesty she projects to her supporters. hitomi responded by thanking Murakami, adding that Murakami's novels Norwegian Wood and Sputnik Sweetheart are high on her list of all-time favourite reading material. The Japanese media drew parallels between the incident and another, probably better-known incident in the West, when the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez commented positively on his countrywoman, the pop idol Shakira.

hitomi's own idol is the American 'Material Girl', Madonna, whom she has admired since watching a Madonna performance in 1987, when hitomi was eleven years old. Coincidentally, Madonna is also an idol of Hamasaki's, and hitomi has conceded that Hamasaki is more like Madonna than herself, in terms of musical and vocal style and even physical appearance.

hitomi is one of the few Japanese pop entertainers who play his or her own instruments during live performances. She plays the guitar. Her concerts are generally lively, high-tempo affairs with specifically-tailored themes, and hitomi is regarded as, despite her advanced age compared to other female Japanese singers, one of the fittest and most athletic of female Japanese performers.

hitomi owns an expensive Spanish-made classical guitar, which was a gift from Hamasaki. Hamasaki had, apparently inspired by reading the novel The Master Of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, challenged hitomi to a game of Go, of which she was usually the superior player. If Hamasaki won, hitomi would have to buy her a German-made piano that had caught Hamasaki's fancy; hitomi did not specify Hamasaki's forfeit. hitomi won the game, but bought Hamasaki the piano anyway. Two months later, hitomi and Hamasaki were surfing the Internet when hitomi expressed a fondness for a classical guitar. Hamasaki bought the guitar immediately and gave it to hitomi, who now rarely goes two days without playing at least one full-length piece on it.

Avex stock prices dropped hugely when it was rumored that hitomi, along with her close friend Ayumi Hamasaki (generally credited as the 'ringleader' of the action), Hiro, Do As Infinity, and Every Little Thing were going to leave Avex if Avex managing director Masato 'Max' Matsuura, was forced out. Matsuura, whom Hamasaki credits for picking her out of obscurity and building her career, was at that time feuding bitterly with a rival executive, Tomoyuki Yoda, over the company's direction. Yoda adventually stepped down and Matsuura stayed.


hahaha
there are so many interesting facts !!!

interesting and fake

some article about Hitomi & Ayumi Hamasaki
 

credit:jOwy

"Despite being constantly viewed as rivals, hitomi shares a close friendship with fellow Avex performer Ayumi Hamasaki, the reigning queen of Japanese pop, which dates back to 2000. The two often get together during breaks in TV performances (like the NHK Red And White Song Festivals), and Hamasaki often goes on joyrides with hitomi through hitomi's native Kanagawa countryside, where Hamasaki often enjoys a certain degree of anonymity, either in a car or on motorbike (hitomi is qualified to drive both, while Hamasaki is not allowed to possess any driving licenses because she suffers from a form of night blindness). Hamasaki attended hitomi's wedding, as well as a family function to celebrate the first month of the birth of hitomi's twin children (a ceremony known as the 'Full Moon Celebration'), and is an unofficial 'godmother' to hitomi's children, Toru and Sumire. hitomi and Hamasaki had attempted in the past to write songs together, but the results were unsatisfactory because the two women have very different musical inclinations and directions. Interestingly, it was hitomi's ideas that led to the popular pre-concert video segments in Hamasaki's 'My Story Concert Tour' in 2005, and Hamasaki has often credited hitomi as 'the director ahead of the director'. Also, both hitomi and Hamasaki are Christians, a religious group that is in the minority in Japan where Shinto and Buddhism are dominant.
Despite being forced by injuries to quit soccer in high school, hitomi is still passionate about the game, and reserves a soft spot for central midfielders (having been one herself). In a February 2005 interview, she surprised many with the depth of her knowledge of the European soccer leagues. Her favourite team is English Premier League club Chelsea, which went on to become the champions of England at the end of that season. hitomi's favourite players are Chelsea players Frank Lampard, John Terry, Didier Drogba, Joe Cole, Claude Makelele, Damien Duff, and Eidur Gudjohnsen, and Spanish clubs Real Madrid's French midfielder Zinedine Zidane, FC Barcelona's Brazilian midfielder Ronaldinho, Manchester United's Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo, Arsenal FC's French forward Thierry Henry, Villareal's Argentinian midfielder Juan Roman Riquelme, and AC Milan's Brazilian midfielder Kaka.
In a separate interview, Ayumi Hamasaki made a reference to her close friend's obsession with all things Chelsea. "I don't know much about football or for sports in general, but Hitomi's simply crazy about this team in England, Chelsea, who wear blue. Just a few days ago they lost to this team who wear red, and Hitomi couldn't eat or sleep properly for a couple of days." hitomi and Hamasaki later confirmed that Hamasaki was referring to Chelsea's 1-0 defeat to Manchester United on November 6, 2005; according to hitomi, all she consumed, for 48 hours after the end of the match, were three cans of beer and a peanut.
The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami mentioned, in an interview granted to the American journal "Upstairs" in December 2004, that hitomi is the only Japanese pop personality he pays attention to because of her combination of self-confidence, no-getting-away-from-it sexiness, and the rare, unique honesty she projects to her supporters. hitomi responded by thanking Murakami, adding that Murakami's novels Norwegian Wood and Sputnik Sweetheart are high on her list of all-time favourite reading material. The Japanese media drew parallels between the incident and another, probably better-known incident in the West, when the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez commented positively on his countrywoman, the pop idol Shakira.
hitomi's own idol is the American 'Material Girl', Madonna, whom she has admired since watching a Madonna performance in 1987, when hitomi was eleven years old. Coincidentally, Madonna is also an idol of Hamasaki's, and hitomi has conceded that Hamasaki is more like Madonna than herself, in terms of musical and vocal style and even physical appearance.
hitomi is one of the few Japanese pop entertainers who play his or her own instruments during live performances. She plays the guitar. Her concerts are generally lively, high-tempo affairs with specifically-tailored themes, and hitomi is regarded as, despite her advanced age compared to other female Japanese singers, one of the fittest and most athletic of female Japanese performers.
hitomi owns an expensive Spanish-made classical guitar, which was a gift from Hamasaki. Hamasaki had, apparently inspired by reading the novel The Master Of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, challenged hitomi to a game of Go, of which she was usually the superior player. If Hamasaki won, hitomi would have to buy her a German-made piano that had caught Hamasaki's fancy; hitomi did not specify Hamasaki's forfeit. hitomi won the game, but bought Hamasaki the piano anyway. Two months later, hitomi and Hamasaki were surfing the Internet when hitomi expressed a fondness for a classical guitar. Hamasaki bought the guitar immediately and gave it to hitomi, who now rarely goes two days without playing at least one full-length piece on it."

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:J...n&client=opera

YUP Ayumi is Christian !!!!!!!!!!

What's the source of this article?

That's a wikipedia article. It's not reliable. Plus, this has already been discussed in the Ayu Chatroom or Enquiries forum:
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35714

That's all quite interesting. I was thinking that hitomi and Hamasaki hadn't appeared together on KOUHAKU, but I forgot that hitomi was featured one time when she sand the song LOVE2000...

Do you guys know how wikipedia works? It's not that trust-worthy. Anyone, anywhere can submit an article, and most of the time it gets on there. I wouldn't be so sure about anything you read there.

Ayumi must have been really serious if she was willing to give up her career! :tired and if she did... I dunno what I'd do...

I'm not sure what you are referring to, but I hope you realize that this wikipedia article is completely fake. Someone out there is a having a good laugh at some gullible people.

So you want to say that everything there is false?

Well it's possible in fact since anyone can post info there.

Yes.

If they working in the same company surely they know each other. Maybe they r friends but... it's the same probable that AYU is friend with Koda Kumi. As Delirium-Zer0 noticed Wikipedia is not any realiable source, besides even if they r friends I don't think to they need made this friendship public thing.

I can post more fake articles to Wikipedia and we made new history - maybe I'll start from that AYU was born a boy? I'll add also that Koda Kumi is her cousin. It will be interesting, right?

We never know just like when we found out nagase and ayu were dating. Before that, no one knew anything until ayu said anything.