Thank you for your continued support towards Hello! Project. It is a sudden announcement but the agreement with the Country Girls member Uta Shimamura came to a midway cancellation. Country Musume。 changed their name to Country Girls and Uta Shimamura joined the group last year on November with their new start, then Country Girls had their CD debut on March of this year.After that, although there had been repeatedly discussions with her family about the future, and during this process the group Country Girls continued their activities, a gap emerged between her family and our company that could not be filled. During this period, while from the family there had been discussion about "retiring", our company had to make a judgement because it exceeded the scope of our management's responsability and it came now to the point of midway cancellation. As a result, except Country Girls Supervisor Mai Satoda, 5 members are still part of Country Girls. Those 5 members have to face this reality and so far they have to continue to do their best with all their might.To all of the fans, we have to apologize for making you worry but we would like to ask you to continue to support Country Girls in the future. 6th June 2015UP-FRONT PROMOTIONOhama Minoru
Honestly、I still can’t accept the realityAnd I’m filled with feelings ofSadness and frustration。 I have completely no ideaHow to expressMy current feelings in words。http://blog-project.net/tsugunaga-momoko/233344
Maybe they can replace her with one of the more popular eggs (Musubu? Kaede?)
Country Girls (Satoda Mai)Special Translations | By Skoban | June 13, 2015On this occasion、 the office contacted me to inform that Country Girls member Shimamura Uta-chan was withdrawing from the group、 which was truly surprising。 Since Country Girls have only just started、 it truly is a pity。The loss of members is something I’ll never get used to。It’s sad to part。 However, I believe that this is a decision that came at the end of a lot of thought by herself and her family, so we could not refuse it。 And for the current 5 members、 I’d like them to work even harder! Everyone、 I beg for your kind, continued support for Country Girls!