Miyawaki Sakura and Yabuki Nako return to HKT48, Sakura announces graduation

Miyawaki Sakura and Yabuki Nako’s activities for IZ*ONE ended in April and now Sakura’s activities with HKT48 will be ending soon.

The two will be returning to HKT48 for activities on May 17th and will be appearing at the concerts on May 29th.

Sakura announced online at an HKT48 event that she is graduating from the group. Her graduation concert will be held on June 19th.

HKT48 tweeted the following statement in English and Korean:

Miyawaki Sakura also announced her graduation on Twitter and her final graduation performance with HKT48. This is her first tweet since 2018 prior to joining IZ*ONE:

Many HKT48 members shared their photos with Sakura and Nako:


Miyawaki Sakura returned to Twitter with a tweet about her surprise to receive a letter from former HKT48 leader, Sashihara Rino:

Meanwhile, Yabuki Nako restarted her Instagram and the first to comment was her friend, Jane from the K-Pop group Momoland:

 

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