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FRIDAY Digital is reporting that former AKB48/NGT48 member Kitahara Rie is dating actor Kasahara Hideyuki. The publication has posted a photo of the two together in a bistro and also a video clip (which can be seen by paid subscribers). Kitahara is a fifth generation Read More …
Former and current AKB48 members celebrated Akimoto Yasushi’s 60th birthday. Celebrating with Akimoto is Takahashi Minami, Maeda Atsuko, Kojima Haruna, Minegishi Minami, Itano Tomomi, Miyazawa Sae, Shimazaki Haruka, Kitahara Rie, NGT48’s Ogino Yuka, Takahashi Juri, Kasai Tomomi and Matsui Jurina. 💖 A post shared by Read More …
Kohei Tsuka is one of Japan’s well-known playwrights who died at an early age of 62 due to lung cancer back in 2010. In 2018, Kohei would be 70-years-old and to celebrate his 70th anniversary of his birth, a special performance titled “Neo Bakumatsu Junjoden Read More …
NGT48 Captain (and longtime AKB48 member) Kitahara Rie is graduating from NGT48 and will be pursuing her career as an actress. But as her final days with the group are around the corner, her graduation solo song “Watashi no tame ni” (For Me) Short ver. Read More …
Kitahara Rie (26) been one of the well-known members from AKB48. Having joined the group back in 2007 and becoming a member of AKB48 when she was still in the fifth grade, and while she was a member of AKB48, she was also a concurrent Read More …
Kitahara Rie (26) had multiple hats to wear as a member of AKB48, SKE48 and NGT48 and also once starring in the hit reality TV show “Terrace House: Boys x Girls Next Door”. But since graduating from the idol group, producer Akimoto Yasushi asked her, Read More …