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The all-female pop group will headline a summer campaign for "reconstruction bonds" aimed at financing projects in regions hammered by last year's quake-tsunami disaster, the Wall Street Journal said, citing an unnamed source. AKB48, one of the world's ...  

The J-Pop mega-idol group AKB48 is continuing its dominance of the Japanese music industry. The act grabbed the top four spots in JASRAC's (Japan Society of Songwriters, Authors and Composers) Awards for the tracks that earned the most copyright royalties ...  

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--On May 23, the Grand Prix Search for the #1 Fan of AKB48, the biggest and most popular Japanese pop music idol group, began on Google+ (http://www.google.com/+/learnmore) to commemorate the 4th annual AKB48 General Election. The Grand Prix Search for the #1 Fan, Worldwide Any fan with a Google+ account that posts an explanation of why they believe their favorite member should be elected in this year’s General Election...  

The Finance Ministry is planning to tap the AKB48 girl group and other celebrities engaged in charity work following the March 2011 disasters to help boost sales of reconstruction bonds for individual investors, sources said Tuesday. Sales of the reconstruction bonds, which are designed to raise funds for postdisaster rebuilding work, are waning in line with a fall in interest rates.  

#akb0048 Allow me to start off with a euphemism. I am not exactly the biggest fan of the Japanese pop-idol group AKB48. This presents me with a problem. With 12 number-one singles since 2009, the popularity of AKB48 in Japanese culture is to the point where I can enter my local 7-11 and buy anything from "AKB48 the lunchbox" to "AKB48 the flamethrower." Their popularity is so great that the...  

#akb48 Japanese idol group AKB48 hold meet-and-greet events in which its young idols shake hands with their rabid fans. It's a chance for their adoring public to rub elbows with their favorite singers. More »  

Atsuko Maeda, the pop icon and original member of all-girl group AKB48, announced Sunday that she will leave the band. "I — Atuko Maeda — will graduate from AKB48. I tried my best in the 6½ years" since the group began, a tearful Maeda said during a concert. "I must move forward to my dream at the age of 20."  

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A commercial showing members of wildly popular all-girl band AKB48 passing bite-size candies seductively from mouth to mouth is under fire for encouraging homosexuality. The advertisement, which aired in March, shows the school uniform-clad young women ...  

This week, a Japanese game company announced it is making "AKB48+Me," which features the enormously big-in-Japan all-girl pop group AKB48, and gives the player a chance to rock out right alongside them - as a member. It's meltdown-worthy for fans of J-pop ...