Japanese rock musician Yoshiki Hayashi, known as Yoshiki, was honoured in Hollywood on Thursday with his handprints and footprints immortalised in cement outside the TCL Chinese Theatre for its Forecourt of the Stars.
The member of “X Japan” is the first Japanese star joining hundreds of legendary celebrities whose artistic achievements have been recognised in this unique and historical fashion by the theater, one of its officials said.
At the imprint ceremony, which included him pressing his drumsticks above his prints, Yoshiki, wearing dark sunglasses and clad in a black suit, joked around and posed as photographers called out to him to get snapshots.
Prints of Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki are pictured following the ceremony when Yoshiki places his handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday….
