Ryutaro talks about his past scandal when he was still a member of Hey Say Jump. That scandal already passed 5 years, but still he wants to apologize. “Because at that time, I could not even apologize.” He was 16 y.o. at that time. The youngest of Hey! Say! JUMP. On June 27th 2011, his smoking scandal was discovered, his affiliation office stated out an indefinite hiatus of his activities. After graduating from Horikoshi High School, and went through 2 years of studying abroad, he came home. For four years, Morimoto who had dissapeared from the world, suddenly showed up on SNS (social media). Then on December 2015, he announced that he will lead the vocal in a dance and vocal unit “ZERO”. The impact to his fans who believed in him and waited for him, was big. Turned around from the glory, within those four years he could not see far ahead, struggling his days in suffering. He passed through the betrayal and despair, and decided to live in the present. He decided to m