Idol group Juice=Juice member Sakura Ishiyama reported on the group’s official blog that after tossing one whole sweet potato into her tonjiru (pork and vegetable miso soup), it came out sweeter than she expected. When the post got reposted to 5ch’s Hello! Project board, the discussion drifted away from the food itself and into whether someone living alone would really bother making a labor-intensive dish like tonjiru. The thread also dug up her habitual anecdotes — like buying huge amounts of sliced bread or a three-seater sofa — with many commenters praising her homemaker-like personality.
My mom's tonjiru has sweet potato in it too, it's too sweet, I won't eat it
5AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:36
Would a woman living alone actually buy a sweet potato?
7AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:38
A cooking report… ugh, my head… (a joking 'painful flashback' meme reaction)
8AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:38
Her omurice egg game is on point
I'd burn mine for sure
9AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:38
I'd buy one lol
11AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:39
There's a guy reflected in the plate
12AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:39
Tonjiru is one of those foods that scores big homemaker points
13AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:39
She really is the homemaker type, huh
14AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:39
Wife material confirmed
15AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:40
By the way, sweet potato is also supposed to be a stamina booster 🤗
16AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:40
She's marriage-ready any day now
19AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:45
What we really need is a non-sweet sweet potato variety made for miso soup
20AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:47
Nobody living alone makes tonjiru
21AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:47
Honestly sweet potato just dissolves and makes the soup gritty, that alone kills it for me
25AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:49
I cook for myself and tonjiru's a totally normal thing to make
26AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:49
What is this omurice, it looks like one of those yes/no nodding pillows (a wobbly novelty toy that nods or shakes its head)
27AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:49
If you skip the ginger, taro's great too — taro goes amazingly well in soups
28AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:49
Tonjiru's exactly the kind of thing you'd make
You get your veggies and meat in one shot
31AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:50
Born and raised in Tokyo, yet somehow lives alone in Tokyo anyway
Ends up making like 10 servings of tonjiru
Somehow buys more sliced bread than one person could ever finish
Lives alone but buys a three-seater sofa
Gets so down sometimes that Arisawa comes and stays over for three days straight to cheer her up
34AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:52
Re: #31
That's gotta be a red flag for an idol, no way around it
40AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:56
Re: #31
She's in college, right
She said '1 serving = 1 bowl,' so that math checks out
It was about the size of two loaves of 4- or 6-slice bread, so buying that much is normal
Lying down on the sofa, that's normal too — honestly buying a single-seat sofa while living alone would be weirder
And the ending is just a genuinely nice story
32AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:50
If anything tonjiru's as basic as curry
We made it in home ec class
36AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:52
Well, if you battle-hardened veterans say so, guess that settles it
37AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:52
Well, cooking is something you do for someone else after all
38AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:53
Maybe she had a huge fight with her boyfriend and was down about it?
39AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:55
She was probably living with some big-eating athlete guy
42AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:58
A sofa you can cuddle on while watching movies sounds nice
45AnonymousSep 1, 2026 22:59
Do the 'wolf' uncles (older fans always hunting for hints of a boyfriend) read this as a hint too?
50AnonymousSep 1, 2026 23:00
So many juicy anecdotes about her
The bond behind 'Ichisaku' (a fan nickname for a close member pairing) must be the real deal
53AnonymousSep 1, 2026 23:02
Having a guy around is exactly what lets an idol push through her activities
54AnonymousSep 1, 2026 23:04
57AnonymousSep 1, 2026 23:06
Wanting to cook despite being kind of a sloppy person by nature is basically her confirming she wants to go all out for a guy
58AnonymousSep 1, 2026 23:06
"Oops, I made too much tonjiru…"
What do you do?
59AnonymousSep 1, 2026 23:06
Ishiyama's such a big eater she got a D rating on her health checkup from eating too much Jiro (the notoriously huge-portion ramen chain)
60AnonymousSep 1, 2026 23:07
Dizzy for You ☆ Climax
61AnonymousSep 1, 2026 23:08
"CanCam" August 2026 issue (on sale June 2026)
Juice=Juice Member Profile (excerpt)
Q5. What's something you always end up buying at the convenience store?
Sakura Ishiyama: Fried chicken and Jiro-style ramen
Background and Points of Debate
Sakura Ishiyama is a member of Juice=Juice who shares updates on her daily life through the group’s official Ameblo blog. This post was originally just a lighthearted account of a cooking mishap — not measuring the sweet potato properly — but on the 5ch thread, the discussion moved past the food itself into a broader debate about lifestyle: whether someone living alone would really bother making something as involved as tonjiru. Opinions split between those who see tonjiru as a laborious dish and those who consider it a basic recipe taught in home economics class. The thread also revisited older anecdotes — like her buying huge quantities of sliced bread or a three-seater sofa — sparking speculation about her private life. It’s worth noting this speculation comes entirely from 5ch users and has not been confirmed as fact by Ishiyama herself or her agency.
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