In September 2008, Yamashita graduated from Meiji University with a major in Business. Other former cast members were Horikita Maki and Ichikawa Yui. On the 7th of June 2007, there were news about that Kurosagi would be made into a movie, and that Yamashita Tomohisa would star again as Kurosaki.
In the summer of 2006, he was put into the promotional group Kitty GYM where he and the Thai duo Golf & Mike were the principal members. He also became a regular columnist of Seventeen magazine. The two released a single as the duet Shuuji to Akira acting as their characters from the dorama.ĭuring NEWS' hiatus, he released a solo single for the dorama Kurosagi which sold remarkably well for a solo release. In 2005, he appeared in the dorama Nobuta wo Produce with KAT-TUN's Kamenashi Kazuya. He is good friends with Akanishi Jin of KAT-TUN and Jin's family, as well as Nishikido Ryo, Shirota Yuu of D-Boys, and Ikuta Toma, formerly of Four Tops. Despite this attention, he maintains a silly personality which occasionally prompts his band mates to question whether he is actually human or not. In NEWS, Yamashita is often in the front and center as he is the most popular member. He was pulled from Four Tops into NEWS when the group was formed. as well as Four Tops, the former hosts of the Shounen Club television program. From there he became a very popular Junior, eventually coming to be the leader of the Juniors. Yamashita Tomohisa entered Johnny's Entertainment at age 11 in September of 1996.