The AKB48 song “365 Days of Paper Airplanes” has served as the theme music of public broadcaster NHK’s morning TV drama Asa ga kita (Morning Has Come) since the program went on the air in fall 2015.

SHANGHAI, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The AKB48 Team SH 4th Anniversary live "Songs in Your Heart" event was held on December 10 th, 2022. The online concert and awards ceremony highlighted 16 of ...

Idol pop phenomenon AKB48 hit the news in two very different ways over the past few months. The first was a vicious and unexpected attack on group members Kawaei Rina and Iriyama Anna at a May 25 meet ...

Japanese idol group AKB48’s popularity is so phenomenal that it even has politicians lobbying for concerts in their country. The mega group isn’t so hot in South Korea though, where their own idol ...

This week marked the release of “Teacher Teacher,” the highly anticipated 52nd single from Japanese idol singer megagroup AKB48. Just how eager were fans to get their hands on the disc? By May 29, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 30 Jul - KLP48, the new Kuala Lumpur-based sister group of Japanese idol group AKB48, has unveiled its first-generation members.

Few would disagree that members of "AKB48" have become national pop stars in Japan. Their climb to the top is a modern success story -- their debut on Dec. 8, 2005, brought only seven people to see ...

Kato Rena, former AKB48 idol, actress, and model, has announced her marriage to her non-celebrity boyfriend. She shared the news on social media, expressing her happiness and describing her husband as ...

AKB48’s commercial success in Japan is often derided as a sign of the culture’s patriarchal infantilization of women, and the girl group’s inability to appeal to Western audiences a sign of Japan’s ...

I never thought I'd say this: AKB48 was the most influential music act of the decade. Wait, hear me out. The world of J-pop saw the 2010s begin a little early, on Oct. 21, 2009, to be precise. That's ...

J-pop girl group AKB48 hit the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, on Sunday (April 1) for their first solo headlining concert in two years. By Billboard Japan J ...