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.

For more than half her life, while other members came and went, Yuki Kashiwagi has been an effervescent presence of the hugely popular AKB48 group. But she will finally move on to a new stage in life ...

Two years ago, around the time the Democratic Party of Japan’s brief spell in power was coming to a close, I met with two colleagues—one a noted political scholar and chancellor of a public university ...

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.

Top Japanese girl band AKB48 have released a single created using AI, after it proved more popular with fans than a rival song written by famed J-pop producer Yasushi Akimoto. As part of a songwriting ...

Japan’s 140-member supergroup AKB48 is holding its second annual draft next month, in which sub-teams will choose new members from a draft of 48 young hopefuls. And among the finalists is one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...