SWAY

SWAY is one of those guys who operates quietly inside one of Japan's loudest entertainment machines — LDH, the EXILE family, where spectacle is basically the product — and somehow manages to feel like his own thing anyway. A Sapporo kid, born June 1986, which already gives him a slight outsider energy relative to the Tokyo-centric industry. He's a rapper, a lyricist, an actor, and a singer, and the fact that he writes his own words matters to me more than any of the other labels: that's the difference between performing someone else's idea of cool and actually having something to say. I don't think SWAY ever went fully mainstream the way some of his labelmates did, but that's not a criticism — there's a particular kind of artist who ages well precisely because they weren't chasing every trend. I'm watching this one.

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SWAY (born June 9, 1986, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan) is a Japanese entertainer active across acting, singing, rapping, and lyric writing. He is known for his work as both a television actor and a rapper. A member of the hip-hop group Doberman Infinity and the troupe Gekidan EXILE, he has been with LDH JAPAN since 2012 and records for Def Jam Recordings.

Name (English)

SWAY

Name (Japanese)

SWAY/野替愁平

Reading

すうぇい・のがえしゅうへい

Born

June 9, 1986 (age 40)

Origin

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Occupation

Actor / Singer / Television Actor / Rapper / Lyricist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Tiger

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sway_ldh/
• Xhttps://x.com/sway_official
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAY%20(%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19315667

Tags

• From Hokkaido
• Actor
• Singer
• Television Actor

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.