{"id":166154,"date":"2026-05-07T08:56:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=166154"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:56:50","slug":"riizes-shotaro-limits-activities-after-suffering-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/riizes-shotaro-limits-activities-after-suffering-ankle-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"RIIZE’s Shotaro limits activities after suffering ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through a recent statement, RIIZE<\/strong>‘s agency announced Shotaro<\/strong> suffered an ankle injury, and despite this, he will continue his participation in the group activities, but it will be in a limited capacity.<\/p>\n

On May 6th, SM Entertainment<\/strong> updated the boy group’s Weverse<\/a> account with a new statement titled ‘[Notice] Information regarding Shotaro’s injury and schedule,’ revealing that the idol recently suffered an injury during overseas activities, which led him to the hospital.<\/p>\n

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“Following a detailed medical examination at the hospital, he was diagnosed with a torn ankle ligament. He is currently recovering while wearing a half-cast and receiving regular outpatient treatment.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/figure>\n \n

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After conversation with Shotaro, they had decided that he will still attend the group scheduled events, including the May 8 Incheon National University festival, the May 10 Japan Kstyle Party, and the May 14 Sogang University and Soongsil University festivals, but “he will not perform any choreography.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This decision was made “based on the medical team’s recommendation to rest and refrain from strenuous dancing, even though he is capable of carrying out daily activities,”<\/strong><\/em> and they concluded by asking for fans’ understanding and continued support for the artist’s recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through a recent statement, RIIZE‘s agency announced Shotaro suffered an ankle injury, and despite this, he will continue his participation in the group activities, but it will be in a limited capacity. On May 6th, SM Entertainment updated the boy group’s Weverse account with a new statement titled ‘[Notice] Information regarding Shotaro’s injury and schedule,’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":166160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[2441],"tmauthors":[3732],"class_list":{"0":"post-166154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"tag-riize"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166154","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166161,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166154\/revisions\/166161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166154"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=166154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}