the announcement harsh? i disagree.

as a fan with fatima under my skin (literally).

announcing this during his birthday live comes as no real surprise to me personally.
hitomi/sanaka/kanoma's birthday always has a live celebration, it is an "event" for all fatima fans in japan- the other guys' dont have concerts necessarily
(lay for example due to the bad placement of his bday for the livehouse calendar).

it might seem rude it one way- but in another it was one of the kindest things they could have done, this way a very large proportion of fans heard it from the horses mouth, so to speak.