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Juice=Juice member Sakura Ishiyama appeared on “Pekomogu Kitchen,” a cooking show streaming on TVer. Her comment on the show — “I started cooking back in high school. Since my grandmother lives alone, I used to make bento for her and my mom” — became a hot topic on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Fans zeroed in on the facts that she’s living away from home despite being from Tokyo, and that her grandmother lives alone, and speculation about her family situation took off from there. At the same time, plenty of comments simply praised her as “such a good kid.”
Pekomogu Kitchen
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What people said
Does Sakurachi have a complicated family situation like Yuumi?
Hope she's doing okay
People of that generation tend to suddenly cut corners with instant food when it's just for themselves
Access out there isn't exactly great
2026-01-15
Look at this!
A huuuge stuffed husky dog!
My mom won it in the UFO catcher
on just her 2nd try!!
When my mom and dad came to pick me up
after work, they said "here's a present for you"
and out came the husky — I was so surprised, lol lol
https://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20260115/21/juicejuice-official/9f/fb/j/o1080134215741246061.jpg
Tarako Pasta — Sakura Ishiyama
2026-05-10
Today's Mother's Day 💐
Cheers to moms everywhere, thanks for everything!
I've loooved tarako (cod roe)
ever since I was little,
and back in elementary and middle school
my mom used to make me tarako pasta or
tarako butter mochi for breakfast every day!
My mom's cooking is seriously
soooo good
No matter how good a meal I have anywhere else,
my mom's cooking is still my favorite
Now that I'm an adult, she often makes me
tarako udon in the mornings
I'm grown up, but still a kid at heart, lol
Background and Discussion Points
“Pekomogu Kitchen” is a TVer-streamed location-shoot cooking show featuring idols making home-style dishes, and Juice=Juice’s Sakura Ishiyama — though she’s from Tokyo — lives on her own, away from her family home. The fact that her grandmother lives alone isn’t especially unusual in itself, given how common single-person elderly households have become. Even so, on the thread, scraps of information — “she moved out despite being from Tokyo,” “we don’t know the full situation with her grandmother or parents” — fueled speculation that went further into her family circumstances. All that was actually revealed on the show was her own comment that she’d been making bento for her grandmother and mother since high school; no details about her family structure or circumstances were disclosed. It’s worth keeping in mind that the thread’s guesses remain just speculation, with nothing to confirm them as fact.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Juice=Juice’s Sakura Ishiyama: ‘I started cooking in high school. Since my grandmother lives alone, I used to make bento for her and my mom’.”
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