Entering the J-pop scene in the early ‘90s, Masaharu Fukuyama, nicknamed Masha, retained steady popularity for years to come, thanks to a combination of great looks (he charts in the "sexiest" lists regularly) and sweet pop/rock melodies that he mostly writes himself. He is also an accomplished TV actor and a product endorser who starred in ads for Panasonic, Apple, Dunlop, and Toshiba, as well as a radio host, a producer, and a prominent photographer.
Fukuyama was born in 1969 in Nagasaki and debuted as a musician in 1990 with the single "Tsuioku no Ame no Naka" and the albu...