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The story
It was announced that Juice=Juice’s Rion Inoue and Ria Matsunaga will appear at a Hello! Project Shop talk event in Osaka on November 14, and Hello! Project fans are buzzing over whether this overlaps with the expected candidate dates for NHK’s Kōhaku Uta Gassen lineup announcement and press conference. On the thread, fans lined up past Kōhaku press conference dates (weekdays between November 13–19 from 2020 to 2025) and cross-checked them against the group’s tour and school-festival schedule. Opinions split between those who think “Juice=Juice must have turned down Kōhaku or missed the cut this year” and those who argue “depending on the timing, they could still make both the press conference and the local event work.”
What people said
39 Anonymous 2026/10/13 (Tue) 20:14:05.64 0
Did they get cut from Kōhaku?
11/16 (Mon) 15:15/19:00 — Juice=Juice Room Tour 2026 "5ROOMS," Tokyo, Kanadevia Hall, matinee & evening shows
11/17 (Tue) 15:00/18:45 — Juice=Juice Room Tour 2026 "5ROOMS," Tokyo, Kanadevia Hall, matinee & evening shows
It'd be their first Kōhaku appearance since that °C-ute one, so
maybe the agency botched the scheduling again.
Honestly, those two are probably just gonna be doing banzai cheers with fans at the talk event instead.
can't have them outshining Morning Musume.
Just like the general public, Kōhaku's really a non-issue — but fans sure sweat every little detail.
More like the antis than the actual fans are the ones being super touchy about it.
What do you even watch normally then?
°C-ute sang "Tokaikko Junjo."
"Tokaikko Junjo" was also the Best New Artist pick at the Japan Record Awards.
Starting a dumb thread like this is probably an anti thing too, honestly.
A real fan just waits for announcement day thinking "hope they make it" — they don't bother with all this extra speculation.
No need to hedge like that…
Not even in the running — not even close.
2020 (71st) — November 16 (Mon)
2021 (72nd) — November 19 (Fri)
2022 (73rd) — November 16 (Wed)
2023 (74th) — November 13 (Mon)
2024 (75th) — November 19 (Tue)
2025 (76th) — November 14 (Fri)
Since it's basically always a weekday, if it overlaps with a Juice=Juice event, it'd be one of these:
11/13 (Fri) — Juice=Juice Autumn Tour at Osaka
11/16 (Mon) — Juice=Juice Autumn Tour at Tokyo
11/17 (Tue) — Juice=Juice Autumn Tour at Tokyo
Why would they even schedule a concert on a weekday during Kōhaku announcement week?
Early November is when Countdown Concert (Hello! Project's New Year's Eve show) ticket applications open, so that'll probably settle it, lol.
Probably something like this schedule:
11/12 (Thu) — Best Hit Song Festival(?) at Osaka 👈 broadcast schedule isn't out yet, but Juice=Juice will probably be on it if this is the date
11/13 (Fri) — Autumn Tour at Osaka
11/14 (Sat) — Inoue & Matsunaga Hello! Project Shop event at Osaka
11/15 (Sun) — School festival at Setagaya
11/16 (Mon) — Autumn Tour at Tokyo 👈 the Kōhaku press conference will probably be that afternoon, so win or lose, it'll get brought up during the live show
There's nothing scheduled on the 18th or 19th though.
Even if they do make it, being in Shibuya at midday and then heading straight to Kanadevia Hall right after the press conference wraps up should be totally doable.
There's no reason it'd be Juice=Juice over any of them.
The agency isn't moving at all either — they're not even lobbying to get them on.
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Next year Morning Musume gets in for their 30th anniversary
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Juice=Juice fans lose their minds lol
I could totally see this happening
What, that's completely off base.
Miki Fujimoto is hosting the high school division
Airi Suzuki is hosting the elementary school division
Hosting a 3-hour live broadcast from NHK Hall
■ Airi Suzuki ■ E-tele "NHK National School Music Contest, Elementary School Division," N-Con 2026 ■ Sunday 14:00–17:00 ■
https://kizuna.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/morningcoffee/1791652050/
Having Komi on the judging panel is actually a pretty positive sign, maybe.
Already looking forward to it.
If they miss out this year, it makes next year's 30th-anniversary appearance look unlikely too — that'd suck.
Background and Key Points
The press conference tied to the Kōhaku Uta Gassen lineup announcement is traditionally held on a weekday in mid-November, and the thread lays out the dates for the past six years (2020–2025). Within Hello! Project, no group has appeared on Kōhaku since °C-ute did, and while the thread never states outright that Juice=Juice has no Kōhaku history of its own, that’s an assumption worth keeping in mind as background. The talk event itself is a small-scale affair at a regional Hello! Project Shop, and depending on the timing, there’s room to make both the press conference and the event work. The thread split over how to read the event’s existence — as a schedule slotted in precisely because Kōhaku wasn’t expected, or as mere coincidence — and as of this writing, NHK has not announced either the Kōhaku lineup results or the official press conference date.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “Inoue and Matsunaga’s Osaka Event Falls on a Likely Kōhaku Announcement Date — Growing Theory Juice=Juice Got Snubbed Again.”
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