For more than half her life, while other members came and went, Yuki Kashiwagi has been an effervescent presence of the hugely popular AKB48 group. But she will finally move on to a new stage in ...

A man wielding a saw injured two members of the immensely popular Japanese girl band AKB48 at a fan event in Takizawa, northwestern Japan, on Sunday afternoon. A male staff member was also wounded.

Three members of AKB48, an all-female idol group based in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, and one from its sister group STU48, will join KLP48, their first sister group in Kuala Lumpur. Yurina ...

TOKYO, Oct 29 — Police arrested a foreign man in his 40s in Tokyo yesterday on suspicion of assaulting former AKB48 member Haruna Kojima by allegedly hugging and knocking her down on a street.