Former AKB48 member Shimada Haruka is married

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Former AKB48 member Haruka Shimada (30) updated her SNS on the 22nd and announced her marriage to a non-celebrity man.

Shimada posted on her X and Instagram, “I am very sorry for the inconvenience due to personal matters, but I have registered my marriage with an ordinary man with whom I have been dating for some time. I would like to inform you about this. The registration date is not November 22nd, but I was having trouble finding the right time to announce it, so I decided to announce it today so that we can become a good couple”.

Shimada also announced that she started her own YouTube channel, “Today, I opened a YouTube channel for the details of my marriage announcement, so I’m going to talk about it in my own words there, so I hope you can watch it.I’ll talk about why I started YouTube, about my husband, etc. Thank you for your continued support. I can’t tell you any details because he’s just an ordinary person. He’s a kind person, and I met him through my girlfriend’s friend, and we’ve been dating for a while now. A year and a half”.

Shimada passed the audition for AKB48’s 9th generation in September 2009. She graduated from the group in November 2017. In May 2020, she started a company called “Dct” that aims to support the second career of idol talents, and she has become the representative director and president.