{"id":158687,"date":"2026-02-07T07:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=158687"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T15:07:39","slug":"riizes-shotaro-is-unable-to-participate-in-macaus-upcoming-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/riizes-shotaro-is-unable-to-participate-in-macaus-upcoming-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"RIIZE&#8217;s Shotaro is unable to participate in Macau&#8217;s upcoming concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RIIZE<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Shotaro<\/strong> is one of the most beloved members of the boy band for his immense charisma on stage. The idols were scheduled to perform in Macau, China, on February 7 and 8 as part of their first world tour,<em> \u201cRIIZING LOUD.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just hours before the concert was carried out, the company behind RIIZE\u2019s Macau concert posted an official statement regarding one of the members: Shotaro.<strong> The company only states that the idol will sit out of the event, but didn\u2019t disclose the reason behind it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RIIZEs-Shotaro-wont-be-on-the-upcoming-date.jpg\" alt=\"Shotaro will miss the chinese concerts \" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RIIZEs-Shotaro-wont-be-on-the-upcoming-date.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RIIZEs-Shotaro-wont-be-on-the-upcoming-date-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RIIZEs-Shotaro-wont-be-on-the-upcoming-date-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RIIZEs-Shotaro-wont-be-on-the-upcoming-date-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RIIZEs-Shotaro-wont-be-on-the-upcoming-date-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RIIZEs-Shotaro-wont-be-on-the-upcoming-date-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RIIZEs-Shotaro-wont-be-on-the-upcoming-date-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RIIZEs-Shotaro-wont-be-on-the-upcoming-date-860x573.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The unexpected announcement brought a <strong>bittersweet moment<\/strong> among fans who were waiting to see Shotaro during these two concerts. Shotaro\u2019s absence might be due to recently escalating <strong>China\u2013Japan diplomatic tensions<\/strong> instead of health reasons. The company apologizes for all the inconveniences caused by the change in the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIIZE\u2019s Shotaro is one of the most beloved members of the boy band for his immense charisma on stage. The idols were scheduled to perform in Macau, China, on February 7 and 8 as part of their first world tour, \u201cRIIZING LOUD.\u201d Just hours before the concert was carried out, the company behind RIIZE\u2019s Macau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":158688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1425,16],"tags":[2441],"tmauthors":[3735],"class_list":{"0":"post-158687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-concert","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-riize"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158687"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=158687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}