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A fan-club-members-only event for Risa Irie of Hello! Project group Juice=Juice, titled “Juice=Juice Risa Irie Birthday Event 2026,” has been announced. It will be held at Yurakucho Asahi Hall in Tokyo, with matinee and evening performances on Friday, October 23, 2026. Irie turns 21 on October 18. Reactions poured in on 5ch’s Hello! Project board as soon as the announcement dropped, with many posters noting a “birthday event traffic jam” given how many other members’ birthdays and birthday events are packed into October, and comparing the venue’s capacity to other members’ events.
What people said
●Performer: Risa Irie (Juice=Juice)
●Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall (Tokyo)
●Date: Friday, October 23, 2026
【Show 01】Doors 4:05 PM / Start 4:40 PM
【Show 02】Doors 6:25 PM / Start 7:00 PM
●Seat types: General seating, Elementary-school seating (all reserved)
●Ticket price: ¥4,700 (tax included)
●Order limit: Up to 1 general seat and 2 elementary-school seats per show, per application
10/6 (Tue) Rin Hashisako's 21st birthday
10/7 (Wed) Miki Nonaka's 27th birthday
10/9 (Fri) Otoki Nishimura birthday event at Starlight Theater
10/15 (Thu) Otoki Nishimura's 16th birthday
10/16 (Fri) Miki Nonaka birthday event at Yurakucho Asahi Hall
10/17 (Sat) Ayuka Hashida's 21st birthday
10/18 (Sun) Risa Irie's 21st birthday 👈
10/18 (Sun) Marin Fukuda's 22nd birthday
10/20 (Tue) Izumi Ishii's 18th birthday
10/20 (Tue) Minami Okamura's 22nd birthday
10/22 (Thu) Ayuka Hashida birthday event at Yurakucho Asahi Hall
10/23 (Fri) Risa Irie birthday event at Yurakucho Asahi Hall 👈
10/28 (Wed) Madoka Saito's 24th birthday
Wow, there are 9 Hello! Project members born in October?
No wonder there's a birthday event traffic jam
It's also the same hall Morning Musume.'s leader used
Cheru
Risachi
Three Fridays in a row in October, huh
And risachi's so cute too
Totally makes sense
That's pretty late, was there some reason?
Marin's birthday event, only 2 days apart from risachi's, was announced way earlier
Please come to Tsubaki's Budokan show too!
I lost every single Juice=Juice ticket lottery, so I can rest easy
They're two rooms short for 5ROOMS after all
Is that gonna be 3 days at PIA Arena, or 2 days somewhere like Yokohama Arena or K-Arena?
I keep seeing this, but at this point what big venues are there besides Budokan and PIA Arena?
Aren't birthday event announcements usually at 5 or 6 PM?
Since it was running so late, maybe they pushed it earlier this time?
Marin-chan, whose birthday's the same day as risachi's, has her event on 10/5
When the schedule's packed, sometimes it gets announced at 2 PM
Or is it mostly talk segments?
Compared to other Juice=Juice members, it's on the lighter side for song count
Down 300 from last year?
Background and Talking Points
At Hello! Project, it’s become customary to hold fan-club-members-only “birthday events” around the time each member has their birthday. These are typically held at halls seating a few hundred people, and Yurakucho Asahi Hall is one venue used frequently for this purpose. In the thread, alongside this announcement of Risa Irie’s birthday event, posters focused on how many other members’ birthdays and birthday events are clustered together in October, with many comments comparing the scheduling crunch and venue capacities to other members’ shows. It’s worth noting that the content of these birthday events (whether singing-focused or talk-segment-focused) varies by member and by year and isn’t officially announced in advance, so predictions in the thread like “fewer songs this time” are just guesses based on posters’ past experiences at similar events.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “★Fan-Club-Members-Only Event★ “Juice=Juice Risa Irie Birthday Event 2026” Announced!“
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