Shigeru Joshima

Shigeru Joshima spent decades as the leader of Tokio, and the role looked nothing like the usual idol-frontman job. He played guitar and sang, but his public image was built out of mud: farming, manual labour, absorbing the physical punishment on variety television so the segment worked. Then Tokio disbanded in 2025 and he carried on as an agricultural entrepreneur, which is the part I find telling. Plenty of celebrities adopt a rustic hobby for the cameras and drop it once filming stops. He turned his into an actual living. A kid from Ichihara in Chiba got called leader for most of his adult life, and I suspect the real qualification was never stopping.

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Name (English)

Shigeru Joshima

Name (Japanese)

城島茂

Reading

じょうしま しげる

Born

November 17, 1970 (age 55)

Origin

Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Height

170 cm

Occupation

musician / actor / singer / composer / lyricist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dog

Blood type

O

Agency

株式会社城島ファーム

Active years

1986-7-7 -

Spouse

菊池梨沙

Works summary

Appearances

94 (1988–2024)

By year

1988: 1, 1989: 2, 1991: 1, 1992: 1, 1993: 2, 1994: 2, 1995: 4, 1997: 4, 1998: 2, 1999: 3, 2000: 1, 2001: 1, 2002: 1, 2003: 4, 2004: 1, 2005: 2, 2006: 1, 2007: 1, 2008: 1, 2009: 4, 2011: 3, 2012: 3, 2013: 2, 2014: 1, 2015: 5, 2017: 1, 2018: 1, 2019: 1, 2020: 2, 2021: 9, 2022: 5, 2024: 1

Debut work

あぶない少年III

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://joshima-farm.tokyo/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/joshima_shigeru/
• Xhttps://x.com/joshima_farm
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru%20Joshima
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9F%8E%E5%B3%B6%E8%8C%82
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1074226

Tags

• Chiba Prefecture
• musician
• actor
• singer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.