AKB48’s Kawaei Rina holds her 1st solo event

On January 19th, AKB48’s Kawaei Rina held her first solo event, ‘Kawaei Rina: Gachi Oshi Matsuri‘, at AKB48 CAFE & SHOP AKIHABARA. Kawaei held a quiz tournament and handshake event with fifty lucky fans. She declared, “I want to do my best and strive towards getting into the senbatsu.” Kawaei mentioned Shimazaki Haruka when asked who her rival is. She said, “Recently, Shimazaki-san has been working vigorously,...

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AKB48’s ‘Unit Matsuri’ & ‘Request Hour’ available for live stream in their entirety

As announced previously, AKB48 will be holding live events “Unit Matsuri” and their annual “Request Hour Set List Best 100 2013” in January, and it was announced on AKB48 Theater manager, Togasaki Tomonobu’s Google+, that they would live stream those event through AKB48’s official YouTube channel. Last year, only the final day of the “Request Hour” was available for a live stream, but this year, you can check the whole...

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AKB48 looks back on the year of 2012 with their new documentary film

On January 21st, premiere screening for AKB48’s newest documentary film “DOCUMENTARY OF AKB48 NO FLOWER WITHOUT RAIN Shoujo tachi wa Namida no Ato ni Nani wo Miru?” was held at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills in Tokyo. The 8 AKB48 members (Takahashi Minami, Oshima Yuko, Shinoda Mariko, Kojima Haruna, Itano Tomomi, Minegishi Minami, Kitahara Rie,Yokoyama Yui) and the director Takahashi Eiki made their...

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