Arashi Around Asia 2008 in Tokyo

{{Infobox concert

| concert_tour_name = Arashi Marks Arashi Around Asia 2008

| image =

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| artist = Arashi

| album =

| start_date = September 5, 2008

| end_date = November 16, 2008

| number_of_legs = 4{{cite web|url=http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-3385|title=Arashi announces Asia concert tour|date=2008-06-15|publisher=Tokyograph|access-date=2009-11-23}}

| number_of_shows = 8

| last_tour = Arashi Marks 2008 Dream-A-Live
(2008)

| this_tour = Arashi Marks Arashi Around Asia 2008
(2008)

| next_tour = Arashi Anniversary Tour 5x10
(2009—2010)

}}

During the group's performance in Tokyo Dome on June 15, 2008, it was announced that they would hold their second Asia Tour by the end of the year. Titled Arashi Marks Arashi Around Asia 2008, the tour began at the National Stadium in Tokyo, where the group became the third musical act after SMAP and Dreams Come True to hold concerts there. The tour then continued to Seoul, Taipei and Shanghai, a Johnny & Associates first.{{cite web|url=http://www.japan-zone.com/news/2008/06/16/index.shtml|title=Othello's Matsushima to Wed Marsas Sound Machine Singer|publisher=Japan Zone|access-date=October 5, 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/johnnys-group-arashi-to-tour-asia-from-september |title=Johnny's group Arashi to tour Asia from September |publisher=Japan Today |access-date=October 5, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907034919/http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/johnnys-group-arashi-to-tour-asia-from-september |archive-date=September 7, 2008 }}

• September 5: Tokyo, Japan
• September 6: Tokyo, Japan
• October 11: Taipei, Taiwan
• October 12: Taipei, Taiwan
• November 1: Seoul, Korea
• November 2: Seoul, Korea
• November 15: Shanghai, China

Special Footage

1. Arashi's Fight in Kokuritsu

Set list

1. "Overture"
2. "Love So Sweet"
3. "Oh Yeah!"
4. "Kitto Daijōbu"
5. "La Tormenta 2004"
6. "Happiness"
7. "Hadashi no Mirai"
8. "Aozora Pedal"
9. "Hello Goodbye" (Masaki Aiba solo)
10. "Subarashiki Sekai"
11. "Tomadoi Nagara"
12. "Still..."
13. "Lucky Man"
14. "Take Me Faraway" (Satoshi Ohno solo)
15. "Niji" (Kazunari Ninomiya solo)
16. "Smile"
17. "Wave"
18. "Carnival Night Part 2"
19. MC
20. "Kaze no Mukō e"
21. "Re(mark)able"
22. "Truth"
23. "Step and Go"
24. "A Day in Our Life"
25. "Tell Me What You Wanna Be?" (Jun Matsumoto solo)
26. "Ichioku No Hoshi"
27. "Sirius"
28. "Hip Pop Boogie" (Sho Sakurai solo)
29. "Arashi"
30. "Pikanchi Double"
31. "Asu Ni Mukatte Hoeru"
32. "One Love"

Encore 1

1. "Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi"
2. "Fight Song"
3. "Kaze"
4. "Kotoba Yori Taisetsu na Mono"

Encore 2

1. "Sakura Sake"
2. "Wish"
3. "Gori Muchu"

The DVD sold 230,000 copies in its first week and held the record for highest first week sales of 2009{{cite web|url=http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-4594|title=New Arashi DVD ranks 3rd ever in first week sales|publisher=Tokyograph|date=2009-04-01|access-date=2009-05-09| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090427095727/http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-4594| archive-date= 27 April 2009 | url-status= live}} until the release of the group's music video collection DVD 5x10 All the Best! Clips 1999–2009 on October 28, 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/70304/full/|title=嵐、音楽DVD史上初の40万枚超え　3年半ぶり歴代記録更新|language=ja|publisher=Oricon|date=2009-11-03|access-date=2009-11-03| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091105003553/http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/70304/full/| archive-date= 5 November 2009 | url-status= live}} It is also the fourth in history for first week sales among music DVDs to date (behind their own 5x10 All the Best! Clips 1999–2009 of 428,000, KAT-TUN's Real Face Film of 374,000 and SMAP's Live MIJ of 281,000), the first DVD to top the comprehensive sales category for three consecutive weeks,{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/confidence/65215/full/|title=嵐がDVDで新記録樹立！ 3週連続の総合首位は史上初|language=ja|publisher=Oricon|date=2009-04-15|access-date=2009-05-09| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090419093111/http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/confidence/65215/full/| archive-date= 19 April 2009 | url-status= live}} and the first music DVD in history to hold the number one spot in the first half of the year in Japan.{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/66995/full/|title=上半期DVDランキング総合1位は嵐、映画DVD部門でも松潤出演作"花男"が1位に|language=ja|publisher=Oricon|date=2009-06-17|access-date=2009-06-17| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090620205720/http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/66995/full/| archive-date= 20 June 2009 | url-status= live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-4947|title=EXILE tops sales ranking for first half '09|publisher=Tokyograph|date=2009-06-18|access-date=2009-06-18| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090621173206/http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-4947| archive-date= 21 June 2009 | url-status= live}}

By the end of 2009, Oricon announced that the DVD was the second best-selling music DVD of the year in Japan, right after 5x10 All the Best! Clips 1999–2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/71742/full/|title=嵐、史上初の"CD、DVD4 冠"達成～シングルTOP3独占は光GENJI以来21年ぶり|date=2009-12-18|language=ja|publisher=Oricon|access-date=2009-12-18| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091219194124/http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/rankmusic/71742/full/| archive-date= 19 December 2009 | url-status= live}}

In 2010, Arashi Around Asia 2008 in Tokyo sold another 85,453 copies, making it the thirty-eighth best-selling DVD overall for 2010 in Japan.{{cite web|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/special/2010/musicrank1220/index08.html|title=年間ランキング特集 DVD|date=2010-12-20|language=ja|publisher=Oricon|access-date=2010-12-20}}

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| 2010

| Arashi Around Asia 2008 in Tokyo

| The Best Music Videos

| {{won}}{{cite web|url=http://www.riaj.or.jp/e/data/gdisc/2010.html|title=The 24th Japan Gold Disc Award 2010|publisher=RIAJ|access-date=2010-03-15| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100323163034/http://www.riaj.or.jp/e/data/gdisc/2010.html| archive-date= 23 March 2010 | url-status= live}}

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{{reflist}}

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100327190728/http://www.j-storm.co.jp/arashi/disco/dvd/d_07.html Arashi Around Asia 2008 in Tokyo] at J Storm
• [http://www.oricon.co.jp/cinema/release/d/811513/1/ Arashi Around Asia 2008 in Tokyo] at Oricon

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