credit: Philosoranter
from Tsunkus book: Positive Hon - Pucchi Seikou e no Chikamichi
1. About how many people do you send mail/text messages to in a day?
Risa: Eh? I send so much I can't count.
2. You wake up in the morning and you've turned into a guy. What's the first thing you do?
Risa: I'd check the tone of my voice.
3. What's the Morning Musume (or Hello! Project) song you sing the most in private or at karaoke?
Risa: Maybe Koi ING? Also "Musume Medley!"
4. If you were Tsunku's girlfriend, what do you think you'd do to make him happy?
Risa: I can't cook, but I think he'd be happy if I could cook for him.
5. What's the best thing about your personality?
Risa: I'm always so energetic.
6. Imagine today is the last day of your life. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner; what would you have?
Risa: Breakfast: Monjayaki. Dinner: Yakiniku. And a loooot of other stuff, too!
7. What do you think you'll be doing in ten years?
Risa: In ten years...I'll be 26. But I think I'd still like to be singing then.
8. Are you a good cook? What's a menu you're confident in?
Risa: I'm not very good, but I can make fried rice if you want it!
9. What's a food you hate so much, you wouldn't even show it on "Kuwazugirai"?
Risa: The fatty part of meat; gristle.
10. What are three outstanding things (good or bad) that happened to you lately?
Risa:
1. I called my mom an old woman. Laugh
2. I changed my cell phone. Valentine
3. I passed my high school test! I can become an 11th grader. Ho!
11. If for one day you could be another member, who would you pick and why?
Risa: Yaguttsan. I wonder what the world looks like from that height? Laugh
12. Seriously, from your first single to the recent Ai no Dairokkan album, what's your favorite song?
Risa: Eh, my favorite? So difficult... Mmm, Furusato!
13. What's the thing Tsunku's said to you in the past that made you the most happy?
Risa: I was so happy when he said, "Niigaki seems like she has lots of fun a concerts, always singing and dancing with a smile. Looking at that really makes me feel good."
14. Conversely, what has he said that made you the most depressed?
Risa: When Tsunku criticised me on my rhythm. I had trouble getting rhythm, but I told myself I'd do my best to learn how to get in rhythm!
15. If you were Yaguchi-san's manager, what would you do to make her happy?
Risa: I'd have ice on hand at all times.
16. If you were Yoshizawa-san's manager, what would you do to make her happy?
Risa: I'd have boiled eggs every day.
17. Tell the truth, if you had a boyfriend, would you tell Tsunku? Would you ask for advice?
Risa: [No answer.]
18. What's the song and the phrase in it that you really wish you were the one who got to sing?
Risa: "Subete wa shinjitsu ni aru" from Roman ~My Dear Boy~.
19. What are three things you like about joining Morning Musume?
Risa:
1. I get to sing the songs I like in front of everybody. It's happiness. Valentine
2. Meeting so many people.
3. Every day is so fun, such happiness. Valentine
20. What are three things you've had trouble with being in Morning Musume?
Risa:
1. It was tough when I couldn't dance very well.
2. It was tough catching up to everyone.
3. Having to remember so many songs.
21. Tell the truth, what's something secret about yourself that you don't think Tsunku knows about.
Risa: When I talk to Tsunku-san, I get nervous and quiet, but I'm usually pretty noisy.
22. You are a celebrity. If you were the president of your management company, what would you push as your own selling point?
Risa: I've got really good eyesight, so I'd make my good eyes my sales point.
23. Praise Tsunku, something to turn him "positive"!
Risa: He worries about everybody like he's their papa. He's kind, and also interesting.
24. What's something you're doing to become a good woman?
Risa: I'm doing exercises to get a slender waist. Laugh
25. What do you think Tsunku should do to become more popular?
Risa: I think he's really popular just how he is now. He's cool. Cool