1. Jiro Wang is a Taiwanese singer and actor, who started his career as a model.
23 Facts About Jiro Wang
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Jiro Wang graduated from Fu Shin Trade and Arts College with a degree in Advertising Design.
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Jiro Wang's father died when he was 18, leaving him and his mother stranded with the family debt.
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Jiro Wang then decided to continue his career in the industry via commercial modeling and working backstage in fashion design.
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Jiro Wang was approached again around 2004, launching the start of his acting career.
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Jiro Wang speaks fluent Taiwanese and Mandarin, and understands conversational English.
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Jiro Wang used to play with an underground band named Karma and was their lead singer.
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In 2013, between his filming commitments, Jiro Wang held solo concerts in the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo in Japan, and Beijing and Shenzhen in China.
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Apart from sharing work and lifestyle photographs, Jiro Wang uses his Weibo account to advocate various charitable causes, especially those relating to aiding aged war veterans and elderly street hawkers, and animal welfare, amongst others.
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Jiro Wang, who is well known in the industry for his filial piety, credits his mother for his artistic gifts and love of design.
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Jiro Wang was partly motivated to create the fashion label as a gift to his mother.
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Jiro Wang jointly invests in WoMen Hair, a stylish hair salon in Taipei, with his good friends and fellow Fahrenheit mates, Calvin Chen and Wu Chun.
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Jiro Wang is most well known as the male lead in the Taiwanese drama KO One and its sequel The X-Family.
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Jiro Wang is known for roles such as Ah Jin in It Started with a Kiss, as Jin Xiu Yi in the live-action Taiwanese drama, Hana-Kimi, and Huang Tai Jing in the Taiwanese adaptation of Fabulous Boys.
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On May 3,2011, it was announced that Jiro Wang has replaced Wu Chun as male lead, "Night Tenjo", in a live-action adaptation of Japanese manga series Absolute Boyfriend, with Korean actress Ku Hye-sun as "Riiko Izawa".
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When Transformers: Age of Extinction launched an online Chinese casting contest for roles in four different categories in China during the summer of 2013, Jiro Wang emerged as the most popular contestant in the "Action Guy" category, from amongst 70,000 entrants.
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In 2014, Jiro Wang became producer of the drama series The Crossing Hero, in addition to his role as male lead.
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In 2016, Jiro Wang starred as the leading character Cao Yan Bing in the popular Chinese manga adaption live action series Rakshasa Street.
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The producer and Jiro Wang himself has confirmed that season 2 is to be expected.
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Jiro Wang is the one that usually has the rap part in most of the songs due to his fluency in the language.
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Jiro Wang's publicized temperature is that of hot summer, at 95 Fahrenheit.
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Jiro Wang released his first solo album What Are You Waiting For on his 31st birthday, August 24,2012.
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Jiro Wang performed in numerous MVs and commercials before his rise to stardom.