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AKB48 (read "A.K.B. Forty-eight") is a girl idol pop group that has achieved enormous popularity in Japan, to the point of being characterized as a social phenomenon. The group has 64 members, ranging in age from early teens to mid-20s.
AKB48 is named after Akihabara (Akiba for short), the area in Tokyo where the group's own theater is located. The idea of AKB48's producer Yasushi Akimoto was to create a girl group that, unlike a regular pop group, which gives occasional concerts and that is mostly seen on TV, would have its own theater and perform there on a daily basis; the fans would always be able to go and see the girls live.
Yasushi Akimoto is also expanding his theater-based idol group concept to other cities and, since recently, countries. He has formed SKE48 (based at a theater in the Sakae area of Nagoya), SDN48 (intended to have a more mature image), NMB48, HKT48, JKT48 (Jakarta, Indonesia), TPE48 (Taipei, Taiwan), SNH48 (Shanghai, China).

Source: Wikipedia.



See Also:
⊙ SKE48
⊙ NMB48
⊙ JKT48
⊙ Nogizaka46