Takumi Kawanishi

Takumi Kawanishi was born on June 23, 1999, in Hyogo, Japan. Kawanishi played baseball from second grade of elementary school to third grade of high school, with the goal of competing in the Japanese High School Baseball Championships. He shaved his head in elementary school to imitate high school baseball players and once competed against Yomiuri Giants pitcher Iori Yamasaki. Kawanishi was inspired to become a singer after he happened to watch a concert DVD owned by his mother when he was 11 years old and was practicing by himself ever since. During his third year in middle school, Kawanishi passed the second screening of a national men's talent search, but he canceled the trip to the last round of audition in Tokyo due to a baseball tournament. After graduating from high school, he worked as a buggy engineer at Kawasaki Heavy Industries. ==Career==

2019–2020: Produce 101 Japan and debut with JO1 In September 2019, Kawanishi convinced his family to allow him to audition for Produce 101 Japan despite having no experience in dancing or singing. Upon training in Korea, Kawanishi made his debut as a member of JO1 on March 4, 2020, with the release of their first single Protostar under Lapone Entertainment. 2021–present: Acting debut Kawanishi made his acting debut on February 26, 2021, playing an unnamed role in the Yoshimoto Kogyo-produced anthology film Meters Away, Worlds Apart segment "Today is A Good Day", alongside his group-mates Ren Kawashiri and Syoya Kimata. On March 3, 2023, Kawanishi was cast as Sōma Shiki in the live version of the web manga series Play It Cool, Guys, with Yuta Nakamoto, Dori Sakurada, and Maito Fujioka. Kawanishi wrote JO1's digital single "Happy Unbirthday" for the group's Alice in Wonderland-inspired exhibition, JO1 in Wonderland!. The song was released on March 26, 2024. The digital single also includes the self-written song "Heaven", which Kawanishi described as "a demo song Kiyosumi might have made". In October 2025, Kawanishi was cast in Wowow's original drama series on domestic violence victims Shadow Work. Kawanishi played Yūma Araki, a junior detective and partner to the co-lead character. On December 5, JO1 released "Santa-san E" (), a song co-written by Kawanishi and was originally performed a year prior to celebrate the group's fifth anniversary. ==Discography==

Singles Songwriting credits All song credits are adapted from the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers's database, unless otherwise noted. ==Filmography==

Film Television Music videos ==Footnotes==