TVXQ Group Activities in Japan to Stop for an Undetermined Amount of Time; AVEX Pres Blog Post

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Despite continuing to set records in Japan, TVXQ’s Japanese management company AVEX announced that there will be an indefinite hold on activities for the 5 members in Japan.

Solo projects will still go forward but the halt to activities was decided after “the 5 members…repetitive discussions with officials from both Japan and Korea” according to translated reports.

TVXQ’s Japanese fanclub’s website was flooded with more than 1500 emails in the couple of hours after the announcement.

These are the times in which the connection and love for each other will be tested. They love each other too much and they will find their way back to each other as soon as external interference from SM is removed (either consensually or forcibly). The red string of destiny ties these guys together in a way I have not seen before.

Toki wo Tomete #1 on Oricon Weekly Charts

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Tohoshinki (TVXQ / DBSK ) have yet another #1 hit on their hands. Though they can’t be out as a group of 5 promoting their singles on various television shows, they have scored #1 on the Oricon Weekly chart (Japan) which breaks a record they themselves set previously. The single sold just over 195,000 copies.

What’s going on now is rather historical. The Korean supergroup is the only non-Japanese artists to have 8 Japanese number one songs at the top of Japan’s Oricon Charts (akin to the Billboard chart in America).