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.