is a Japanese management and entertainment company founded by the six original members of Japanese boy group

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in 2003. The president is

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, the leader of the Exile. The name "LDH" is an acronym of "Love + Dream + Happiness". The company operates several boy bands and girl groups and a talent school named "EXPG". In January 2017, the company changed its name to LDH Japan and established overseas branches in

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, and

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. They established a new company called LDH World, the parent company of the four branches. For LDH World, Hiro took on the role of chief creative officer, while Verbal,

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and Dr. Romanelli (aka DRx) were appointed as executive creative directors. Masataka Mori was appointed as the CEO of LDH Japan, Makoto Matsuda as the CEO of LDH Asia,

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as the CEO of LDH Europe and Hirotaka Mori as the CEO of LDH USA.

Artists

Current

Groups

* Exile The Second * Sandaime J Soul Brothers from Exile Tribe * Generations from Exile Tribe *

The Rampage from Exile Tribe The Rampage from Exile Tribe ( Japanese: ザ・ランページ・フロム・エグザイル・トライブ, stylized as THE RAMPAGE from EXILE TRIBE and also known as The Rampage), is a J-pop vocal and dance group formed and managed by talent a ...

* Fantastics from Exile Tribe * Ballistik Boyz from Exile Tribe * Psychic Fever from Exile Tribe * Lil League from Exile Tribe * Kid Phenomenon from Exile Tribe * The Jet Boy Bangerz from Exile Tribe * Wolf Howl Harmony from Exile Tribe * Deep Squad * Doberman Infinity * PKCZ(R) *

M-Flo is a Japanese hip hop group consisting of Taku Takahashi, Verbal and Lisa. Lisa left the group in 2002 to pursue a solo career and the remaining members then started the M-Flo Loves... project working different vocalists for each song over t ...

Honest Boyz Honest Boyz (stylized in all caps)also HONEST BOYZ®, is a 5-member hip hop group consisting of four MC's and one DJ: Naoto (Exile member & Sandaime J Soul Brothers leader), Verbal (from m-flo and PKCZ®), Sway (from Doberman Infinity & Gek ...

* Samurize from Exile Tribe * Dance Earth Party *

Girls² Girls2 (pronounced "Girls Girls") is a Japanese idol girl group formed by LDH in 2019. The group consist of EXPG Studio graduates who starred in Takashi Miike's '' Girls × Heroine'' series. The group debuted in June 2019 with the release of th ...

* iScream * Lucky² * F5ve * Rag Pound * Kick & Slide * 3 Lemon Siblings (Remon San Kyōdai; レモン三兄妹) * ZIPANG OPERA * MA55IVE THE RAMPAGE * TERIYAKI BOYZ

Soloists

* Billy Laurent * Exile Atsushi * Exile Takahiro * Exile Shokichi * Dream Ami * Dream Shizuka * Hiroomi Tosaka * Ryuji Imaichi * Takanori Iwata * CrazyBoy * Sway * Verbal *

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* Jay'ed *

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* SG * Sho Aoyagi *

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* SALU

Actors

* Akihisa Shiono * Yuki Sakurai * Kentaro Maeda * Hayato Onozuka * Kanta Sato *

Keita Machida is a Japanese actor. He is a member of the theater group Gekidan Exile. Machida is represented by LDH (company), LDH. Biography Machida was born on 4 July 1990, in Higashiagatsuma, Gunma, Higashiagatsuma, Japan. He has one younger and one old ...

* Yuzuki Hirakawa *

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* Nobuyuki Suzuki * Anna Ishii * Nonoka Yamaguchi * Karen Fujii * Yuta Ozawa * Shintaro Akiyama * Masayasu Yagi * Don Lee * Sho Aoyagi * MATSU * Toshiki Noiri * Kousei Amano * Kyosuke Kurokawa

Former

Groups

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E-girls E-girls (sometimes stylized as E-Girls or e-girls; stands for Exile Girls) was a Japanese collective girl group created and managed by LDH while signed to music label Rhythm Zone from Avex. As of 2017, the band consisted of 11 members; 8 of wh ...

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* Moonchild (co managed by HYBE Labels Japan) * lovely² * Oha Girl from Girls² / Lucky² * MABU * mirage² * NEVER LAND (Hip-hop Unit) * Paradise Go!! Go!! * Parc Manther * Rather Unique * Rootless * ShuuKaRen * SudannaYuzuYully

Soloists

* Yui Nakazaki * Raine Kawane * Sherry * NaNa *

Kiko Mizuhara Audrie Kiko Daniel (born October 15, 1990), known professionally as , is an American-born Japanese model, actress, singer and designer. Kiko Mizuhara started her modeling career at the age of twelve when she entered an audition contest for '' Se ...

* Ken Harada * Ceyren * Kouko * Haru Natsuko * ia * Yuika Nakano * Seira Yoshida * Yosuke Isomura * Rowland Kirishima * Atsushi Yanaka *

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* Mao Ueda * Jun Hasegawa * Jonte * Breathe * Kyosuke Harukawa * Tatsuro Mashiko * Akiko Monō * Sayaka Shionoya * Risa Matsumoto * Rome Kanda * Noma * Tomohiro Nagatsuka * Kei Otozuki * Airi Kido * Monica Sahara * Shimada Zen * Teresa Sakura *

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EXPG

EXPG Studio is a talent school that trains people who want to become artists in the field of dancing, singing, acting or modelling. The name "EXPG" is an acronym for "Exile Professional Gym", deriving from its founders. The first EXPG Studio opened in October 2003 in Tokyo and since then the schools expanded around the globe. There are currently 12 schools at different locations in Japan, 3 schools located in other countries (2 in the USA and 1 in Taiwan) and an online school. In 2019, LDH announced EXPG High School in collaboration with

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Gakuen N High School. The school allows pupils to earn a high school diploma while studying class. Exile Tetsuya serves as chancellor.

References

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