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    AKB48 (pronounced A.K.B. Forty-Eight) is a Japanese idol musical girl group named after the Akihabara area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located...
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    AKB48 Group (Japanese: AKB48グループ, Hepburn: AKB48 gurūpu), or AKB48 sister groups, shortened to 48 Group or 48g, refers to the sister groups of the Japanese...
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    Sakura Miyawaki (category AKB48 members)
    group AKB48 and HKT48. Miyawaki began her music career with the girl group HKT48 in 2011, and was a concurrent member of their sister group AKB48 from...
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  • group AKB48 has many members who have left the group for various reasons such as focusing on solo careers. Some members have left to help launch AKB48's sister...
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  • AKB48 is a Japanese idol girl group formed on December 8, 2005. As of 2024, the group consists of 48 members, including 35 official members and 13 trainees...
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    Hitomi Honda (category AKB48 members)
    Japanese singer and actress. She is a former member of the Japanese girl group AKB48. From 2018 to 2021, she was a member of the South Korean-Japanese girl group...
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    The discography of AKB48 consists of 63 singles (61 major singles and 2 indie singles), 6 studio albums, 3 compilation albums, and 32 stage albums (12...
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    Mariko Shinoda (category AKB48 members)
    member of the Japanese idol group AKB48, in which she was the captain of Team A. In October 2005, she auditioned for AKB48's first generation roster but failed...
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  • AKB48 China may refer to: AKB48 Team SH, official sister group of AKB48 in mainland China, replacing SNH48 AKB48 Team TP, official sister group of AKB48...
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  • This is a list of songs recorded by the Japanese girl groups AKB48, SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, NGT48, SDN48, Nogizaka46 and Keyakizaka46, their members and...
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    Rino Sashihara (category AKB48 members)
    member of idol groups HKT48, AKB48 and STU48, and was the theater manager for HKT48 and STU48. She was also a member of AKB48's unit Not Yet and is the producer...
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    On May 25, 2014, members of the Japanese girl idol group AKB48 were attacked with a handsaw during a fan "handshake" event at the Iwate Industry Culture...
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    AKB48 Team TP formerly known as TPE48, is a Taiwanese idol group and the sixth international sister group of AKB48, after Indonesia's JKT48, China's SNH48...
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    Yuko Oshima (category AKB48 members)
    member of Japanese idol girl group AKB48, of which she was the captain of Team K. She was also a member of the AKB48 subunit Not Yet. In addition to the...
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    held by Japanese idol groups. The handshake events held by the idol group AKB48 are well-known and successful in the entertainment industry and in recent...
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    Yuki Kashiwagi (category AKB48 members)
    Japanese idol girl group AKB48, NMB48 and NGT48. She auditioned for AKB48 on December 3, 2006, and is now a member of AKB48's Team B. She was previously...
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    Sayaka Akimoto (category AKB48 members)
    Japanese actress and singer. She was a member of Japanese idol girl group AKB48 and its spin-off unit Diva. As an actress, Akimoto has appeared in both...
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    HKT48 (category AKB48 Group)
    first revealed by AKB48 producer Yasushi Akimoto on November 19, 2008. HKT48 was officially announced on May 1, 2011, at an AKB48 handshake event. The...
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    Yasushi Akimoto (category AKB48)
    creating and producing some of Japan's top idol groups, Onyanko Club and the AKB48 franchise. Total sales of the singles he has written exceed 100 million...
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    JKT48 (category AKB48 Group)
    based city of Jakarta and the Japanese idol group AKB48. Formed in 2011, the group is the first AKB48 sister group outside Japan and adopts the concept...
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  • MNL48 (category AKB48 Group)
    Philippines. Formed in 2018, they are the fourth international sister group of AKB48, after Indonesia's JKT48, China's SNH48 (former), and Thailand's BNK48....
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  • Produce 48 (category AKB48 Group)
    collaboration between the Mnet series Produce 101 and the J-pop idol group AKB48. The winning 12 contestants, with no nationality caps, as voted only by...
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  • AKB48 (pronounced A.K.B. Forty-eight) is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (Akiba for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater...
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    Atsuko Maeda (category AKB48 members)
    Japanese actress and singer. She is a former member of the idol girl group AKB48, and was one of the most prominent members in the group at the time, regarded...
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    Mayu Watanabe (category AKB48 members)
    started her career as a member of the idol girl group AKB48 under Team B. In the annual AKB48 General Elections event, she had consistently been voted...
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    Minami Takahashi (category AKB48 members)
    Japanese girl idol group AKB48. She is in Team A of AKB48. She became the first General Director (総監督, sōkantoku) of AKB48 and its sister groups. In...
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    graduation events, and some groups have their own in-house costume designer. AKB48, in particular, has had over 1,102 costumes created for the group since...
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    AKB48 Team SH (also known as 冲吧少女组合/Chong Ba Shaonu Zuhe) is a Chinese idol group based in Shanghai, China and an official sister group of the Japanese...
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    Minami Minegishi (category AKB48 members)
    debuted with AKB48 Team A in 2005. She ranked 14th in the AKB48 2012 general election with 25,638 votes. She is one of the three members of AKB48 sub-group...
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    Nako Yabuki (category AKB48 members)
    HKT48 in November 2013. From 2015 to 2017, she was a concurrent member of AKB48. In 2018, she competed in the South Korean survival show Produce 48. She...
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