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Japanese music video of Yasai Sisters (野菜シスターズ, lit. vegetable sisters) by pop group AKB48, released in 2010 as a commercial song for Kagome’s vegetable juice. Bubblegummy stuff, with plenty of dancing “vegetables”…
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Japanese pop group AKB48 are featured on recent issue of FLASH magazine, which covered their performance-trip in Singapore last month. 16 of the group’s 48 members held a concert at the Suntec Convention Centre on November 12 in conjunction with the Anime Festival Asia. And seems like the girls were afforded a bit of leisure time touring the island nation as well. Click image for full size pic…
Japanese music video of Kimi no Koto ga Suki Dakara (君のことが好きだから, what I like about you) by pop group AKB48…
The song was included in their 2009 best selling single-album River. Most of the time only 16 of the 48 members (usually the popular crop) would feature in the title track, while some others would feature in secondary tracks, as in this case.
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Japanese pop group AKB48 have launched their official Youtube channel. Most of their major singles since 2008 (after switching to King Records) have been uploaded, and the company will continue to update the channel contents.
Sharing one of their previous songs, Iiwake Maybe (言い訳Maybe)…
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Japanese music video of Seishun no Flag (青春のフラッグ, lit. young flag), the fifth single by Watarirouka Hashiritai, sub-unit of popular girl group AKB48…
Watarirouka Hashiritai is arguably AKB48′s most successful sub-unit. All their singles (and an album) have managed to reach the top 10 on Oricon weekly chart, including their previous single AkKanbe Bashi [YT] which peaked at #1.
The five members of Watarirouka Hashiritai are Mayu Watanabe, Aika Oota, Natsumi Hirajima, Haruka Nakagawa and Ayaka Kikuchi.
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Snippet: Watarirouka Hashiritai & Hiroshi Tamaki @ NEC LaVie CM
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