“My name is Minami Minegishi of AKB48 Team B,” she says, referring to the hugely successful group she became a founding member of seven years ago. “Regarding the article that will be ...

But every day isn’t all sunshine and rainbows for idols, even those who are part of the industry’s most successful and prestigious group, AKB48. On Jan 14, former AKB48 member Miki Nishino, who was ...

Welcome to the world of AKB48. AKB48 is one of the world’s most-successful pop acts, with over a dozen chart-toppers and annual CD and DVD sales of over $220m (£128.5m). Among the Guinness ...

A sobbing Minami Minegishi apologised to her fans and said she did not want to leave the band AKB48, in the video seen by millions on YouTube, external. The production company behind AKB48 said ...

The girls of AKB48 arrived in Washington this week, a buoyant, giggling mass of knees, dimples, hair bows, teeth. Do the girls of AKB48 own any pets? the American students asked the Japanese pop ...

So degrading and humiliating. So, she has to apologize for behaving like a perfectly normal human? Gawd. It's a pity she didn't give the AKB48 management the middle finger! Because that's what they ...

AKB48 is a 92-member girl band from Japan whose one song has garnered some 56 million hits on YouTube. The WSJ's Deborah Kan talks to Tokyo News Editor, Kenneth Maxwell about what's causing the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A 3DS rhythm and simulation game where the player tries to join the J-pop group AKB48, or manages them in sim mode. Don’t get me wrong! I like McDonald’s as much as the next person.