Shueisha's Super Jump magazine has announced that the manga "Jin" by Motoka Murakami is being adapted as a live-action series. The comic revolves around a brain surgeon who travels back in time to the Bakumatsu period of the 1800s.

The cast and broadcast dates of the drama are still undecided.

The medical mystery manga "Iryou Sousakan Zouou," written by Naoyuki Sakai and illustrated by Fumiko Nagao, is being adapted as a live-action television drama. The manga is currently being serialized in Akita Shoten's Play Comic.

The drama version will be a 2-hour special aired in Fuji TV's "Kinyo Prestige" time slot. The cast and the broadcast date have not yet been determined, but details will be announced in the future on the network's website and in Play Comic.

On Friday, punk band Ging Nang Boyz announced on its official website that bassist Shinya Abiko (30) is now married.

Abiko had been dating the woman for roughly 8 years, though at one point they broke up for about 2 years. They got married on April 4.

Yoichi Ito (30), the keyboardist of the five-member band GOING UNDER GROUND, has decided to leave the group. On Saturday, the band announced the departure on its official website, explaining that Ito was leaving for family reasons.

Ito's wife gave birth to a son this past November. In order to focus on raising the child, he decided to take a break from his music career. His last performance with the band will be on the 18th, the last day of their current tour.

Arashi's Kazunari Ninomiya (25) and actress Mao Inoue (22) will co-star in a drama special on TBS. The story is based on two novels written by professional windsurfer Natsuki Iijima, who died of cancer in 2005.

During Iijima's battle with cancer, he wrote an essay titled "Gan ni Ikasarete," which formed part of the basis for the 2007 film "Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara," a biography of Iijima that starred Takao Osawa and Misaki Ito. Around the same time, Iijima penned a novel also titled "Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara," as well as a sequel titled "Kamisama ga Kureta Namida." The drama special is based on those two books, which sold more than 450,000 copies combined.

The drama is also being called "Tengoku de Kimi ni Aetara." Ninomiya plays the main character, a psychiatrist working in the counseling room of a cancer treatment center by the beach. While tending to the patients, part of his job involves taking dictation from them when they want to send a letter to a loved one.

Inoue plays the psychiatrist's wife and mother to the couple's twin daughters. Other cast members include Nobuko Miyamoto as a nurse, Yusuke Santamaria as a surgeon, and Naoto Ogata as the owner of a surf shop.

The broadcast date for the drama has not yet been determined.