Tomohisa Yamashita (山下 智久 Yamashita Tomohisa?, born April 9, 1985), also widely known as Yamapi, is a Japanese idol, actor, and singer.
Yamashita joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1996 at the age of 11 and made his official CD debut with NEWS in 2004. He debuted as a solo artist in 2006 with the hit single "Daite Senorita". Yamashita graduated from Meiji University's faculty of commerce in the fall of 2008 with a degree in marketing.
Yamashita's recent works include the 2011 movie Ashita no Joe, the Winter 2010 series Code Blue 2, and the Summer 2009 series Buzzer Beat. Code Blue 2 and Buzzer Beat aired in Fuji TV's prestigious getsuku (Monday 9 pm) time-slot in Japan, making Yamashita the first person to have starred in two getsukus with only a single drama season in between.
He released his first solo album entitled "Supergood, Superbad" on January 26, 2011. Like all of his previous releases, the album debuted on top of the Oricon weekly charts.
On October 7, 2011, Johnny & Associates announced that Yamashita was leaving NEWS and would continue on as a solo artist under Johnny & Associates.-- Wikipedia
