上田竜也

Tatsuya Ueda (上田 竜也, Ueda Tatsuya; born October 4, 1983), is a Japanese singer and actor under Starto Entertainment. Born in Kanagawa in Japan. He joined the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1998. In March 2006 he debuted as a member of KAT-TUN, group to which he belonged until its disbanding in April 2025. The group's name was an acronym based on the first letter of each member's family name, until the departure of Jin Akanishi (2010), Koki Tanaka (2013) and Junnosuke Taguchi (2016), after that, Ueda took the T's for TaTsuya. Since 2016 until the end, KAT-TUN's name stood for Kazuya KAmenashi, TaTsuya Ueda, and Yuichi Nakamaru. Ueda is also an amateur boxer.