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 ...

While Namco Bandai made a few AKB48 dating sims, Kadokawa Games is working on an AKB48 idol simulation game. Titled AKB48+Me, this upcoming Nintendo 3DS game gives you (well your Mii) a chance to join ...

AKB48 is not exactly a band. It's an army of girls-next-door, ranked by its fans, and after taking Japan by storm it's getting ready to go global. More than 60 girls and young women, split into four… ...

BANGKOK (THE NATION/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha became ota (a "big fan", in Japanese) for AKB48 on Thursday (Sept 13) as the J-pop idol girl band put on a special ...

A Japanese pop idol, hair freshly shaved to the skin, takes to YouTube and bursts into tears as she begs for mercy over her transgression. “My name is Minami Minegishi of AKB48 Team B,” she says, ...

The all-girl pop group is inviting more 'mature' applicants to join. Japanese commercial music juggernaut AKB48 is looking to build on its wildly successful all-girl group by adding a more mature ...

Bands have been a goldmine, grossing 16.28 billion yen ($212 million) in 2011 If Japanese starlet Minami Minegishi’s shaven head and tearful mea culpa looked more like a disgraced samurai trying to ...

Tomomi Itano, who is a former AKB48 member and known as Tomochin by her fans, is going to perform for the first time in the U.S. very soon at the J-POP SUMMIT FESTIVAL 2014 held in San Francisco. She ...

Members of J-Pop girl group Keyakizaka46 have caused offence in Japan by donning Nazi-style uniforms as Halloween outfits. The band, a spin-off of the AKB48 J-pop stable, played a Halloween-themed gig ...

AKB48 is Guinness World Records' "largest pop group." More than 300 are running for the election for 16 spots on the upcoming song out in August. More than 3 million votes have been cast in the last ...