[NEWS] Jaejoong Takes #2 in Best Jeanist, Japan’s Most Prestigious Fashion Survey Award

Japan’s Best Jeanist. JYJ’s Jaejoong is 2^nd.

Japan’s Best Jeanist 2011 was announced.

On October 5^th in Tokyo, the Best Jeanist 2011 were announced. JYJ’s Kim Jaejoong took 2^nd place. Best Jeanist is a prestigious awards ceremony in Japan. It began in 1994 with the aim of proclaiming the pleasure of wearing blue jeans and the meaning behind them and such. It boasts of being the most prestigious fashion awards in Japan. Best Jeanist is one of “The 3 Popularity Votes” as referred to in Japan with AnAn and CDTV.

In the vote, in the male category, Kim Jaejoong earned 3052 votes to follow Japan’s nationally-popular idol group Arashi’s Aiba Masaki who earned 11942 votes. Yamashita Tomohisa of NEWS, who had an in-Korea performance in April, took 3^rd place with 2602 votes.

Kim Jaejoong also took 3^rd place last year, and so he has put his name on the Top 10 for two consecutive years.

[Parts unrelated to Jaejoong omitted]

Source: Oricon, Newsen, and JoyNews
Translation Credit: JYJ3