It's the end of the year, Japanese news media Daily Sports is rounding up lists of the top 19 Japanese show business news:
- January: Ariyasu Momoka graduated from Momoiro Clover Z
- January: Komuro Tetsuya announced retirement from show business
- March: Nearly Blind Hamada Yutaro Wins National Stand-Up Comedy Championship
- March: V6 Morita Go and Miyazawa Rie announced marriage
- May: Kimura Takuya's daughter Kōki Model Debut
- June: AKB48 fans crown Matsui Jurina as World Election Champion
- June: Low budget zombie movie One Cut of the Dead takes the Japanese box office by storm
- June: DA PUMP's U.S.A. become super hit song
- July: Maeda Atsuko and Katsuji Ryo announced marriage
- July: Miura Shohei and Kiritani Mirei announced marriage
- August: Ex-Hello Project idol Yoshizawa Hitomi retired from show business
- September: Amuro Namie held her farewell concert at hometown Okinawa
- October: Sawada Kenji cancelled concert due to low attendance
- November: Takanohana (II) Kōji and Kono Keiko announced divorce
- November: Oikawa Mitsuhiro and Dan Rei announced divorce
- December: Shimofuri Myojo becomes the youngest winners of Stand-Up Comedy Championship M1 Grand Prix
- December: Toro Salmon's Kubota and Super Maradona's Takechi Missile mocking M1 Judge Kaminuma Emiko on Instagram LIVE caused controversy
- December: Sashihara Rino announced graduation
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