Watanabe Mayu

Native Name	: 渡辺 麻友
Also known	: Mayuyu (まゆゆ)
Born	: March 26, 1994 Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	: Singer
Genres	: J-pop

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Mayu Watanabe 渡辺 麻友 Watanabe Mayu born March 26, 1994 in Saitama Prefecture is a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48, under Team B. She debuted with AKB48's Team B and has been featured on most of the group's singles title tracks. She is a member of AKB48's subgroups Watarirouka Hashiritai, Team Dragon, and NO NAME. She has also released four solo singles.

She auditioned for AKB48 and was placed in the newly formed Team B. Her first appearance on an AKB48 single title track was on "Bingo!". With the exception of singles whose lineups were determined by rock-paper-scissors tournaments, she has appeared on all the A-sides for the group's singles since then. In 2009, she placed fourth overall in the group's general election to determine the line-up for the group's 13th single. She placed fifth overall the next year for the group's 17th single.

She appeared on the cover of the December 2010 issue of UP to boy magazine together with Airi Suzuki from Cute. That was the first gravure collaboration between Hello! Project and AKB48. On May 13, 2011 she released her photo book, Mayuyu. She commented that the book "is filled with a lot of expressions that I haven’t shown until now, it’s a book I’m really pleased with!” Regarding her nude cover picture, she said, “Despite being embarrassed, I did my best on the front cover, so I want a lot of people to look at it!” In an episode of the group's variety show AKBingo!, Mayuyu and Haruka Shimazaki's nickname "Paruru" were coined by former teammate Rumi Yonezawa. For AKB48's general election in 2011, she placed fifth overall.

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Mana and Kana Kimura

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Mana Mikura (三倉茉奈?) and Kana Mikura (三倉佳奈) born February 23, 1986 in Osaka, Japan are Japanese identical twin sister actresses. They are mostly collectively referred to as ManaKana (マナカナ?). Mana is the older one, born 7 minutes before Kana.

They debuted at the age of 5, appearing in television commercials. In 1996, they appeared in the Asadora Futarikko, playing the main twin characters as children. In March 2008, both graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University. In 2008, they starred in the Asadora Dandan about twins separated at birth. Mana played a Shimane Prefecture school girl who loves to play in a rock band. Kana played a maiko from Kyoto Prefecture.

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Satomi Ishihara

Birth Name	: Ishigami Kuniko (石神国子?)
Born	: December 24, 1986 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	: Actress

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Satomi Ishihara 石原 さとみ Ishihara Satomi born December 24, 1986 is a Japanese actress. Popular among Japanese fans, she gained recognition for her acting talent. She started taking parts acting in television dramas in 2003. Satomi Ishihara appeared in various commercial events also known as public relations. Printed materials such as photobooks, DVD photo collections and calendars are available. She currently does advertising for AEON, an English language school of which she is a student.

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Mao Inoue

Born	: January 9, 1987 Yokohama, Japan
Occupation	: Actress

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Mao Inoue 井上 真央 Inoue Mao born January 9, 1987 in Yokohama, Japan is award-winning Japanese actress. She debuted as a U-15 idol in 1999. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as Akane Imai (今井 茜 Imai Akane?) in Kids War (キッズ・ウォー Kizzu Uo?) and Makino Tsukushi in the Hana Yori Dango series, in which she won Best Actress in the 47th Television Drama Academy Awards and received a newcomer award at the 16th Hashida Awards for her performance.

She revealed in one show that her mother encouraged her to join performing acts to learn when she was at the age of 4. She was also learning music and arts. Acting wasn't her priority then but when she received her first fan letter, she decided to continue acting. Despite joining the show business at an early age, she also put priority to her school. In 2004, despite the rise of her popularity from the Kid's War series, she decided to put her acting on hold as she concentrated on graduating from University of Japan and enrolling at Meiji University. In 2005, at 18, Inoue enrolled in Meiji University, majoring in theater and literature; she chose Chinese as her second language elective. In her last year of college, she concentrated solely on her studies. In March 2009, she graduated from Meiji University.

When she was young, Inoue's hobbies include playing badminton and basketball, Japanese dance, music, and oil painting. Now her hobbies centered on listening to music, painting and photography. Her paintings and pictures are mostly nature and her pet dog. She also came to love playing golf in her spare time. She also loves animals; she has a pet Boston Terrier named Hug. Because of her love for animals, she revealed that she plans to be a veterinarian if she is not in the entertainment industry. She is also a big fan of Disneyland.

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Erika Toda

Native Name	: 戸田 恵梨香
Born	: August 17, 1988 Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
Occupation	: Actress

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Erika Toda 戸田 恵梨香 Toda Erika, born August 17, 1988 in Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan is a Japanese actress. She has starred in many Japanese television dramas, including Liar Game, Code Blue, Ryusei no Kizuna, and Keizoku 2: SPEC. She has also had supporting roles in many other popular TV dramas, such as Boss, Nobuta wo Produce, Engine, and Gal Circle. In the manga adaptation movie, Death Note, she played the role of Misa Amane.

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Anne Watanabe

Native Name	: 渡辺 杏
Born	: 14 April 1986, Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	: Singer, fashion model, actress, TV host

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Anne Watanabe 渡辺 杏 Watanabe An?, born 14 April 1986 in Tokyo is a Japanese fashion model, actress, and singer. She is the daughter of film actor Ken Watanabe. In her modeling work, she is known by the mononym Anne.

Watanabe's first high-profile modeling season was spring/summer 2006, in which she was featured in runway shows for Anna Sui, Diane von Furstenberg, Tommy Hilfiger, and Vivienne Tam, among others. She also walked for Baby Phat, Imitation of Christ, Karl Lagerfeld, Lacoste, Marc by Marc Jacobs, and Thakoon in subsequent seasons.

Watanabe has been featured in print advertisements for Anna Sui and NARS Cosmetics.

In Japan, Watanabe is also a well-known reki-jo (history girl) -- a female history otaku.

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Suzuka Ohgo

Born	: 5 August 1993 Zama, Kanagawa, Japan
Occupation	: Actress

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Suzuka Ohgo 大後 寿々花 Ōgo Suzuka, born 5 August 1993, in Zama, Kanagawa is an award-winning Japanese actress. Besides acting, she is also attending school and has a variety of hobbies including classical ballet, Japanese tea ceremony, ikebana, rollerblading, snowboarding, playing the piano, and skiing. She is represented by Alpha Agency.

She began acting in 2000 age of seven, when she joined Sunflower (Himawari), a theatrical company. She debuted with the company at the Meiji-za in Story of a National Thief.

In early 2005, Ohgo debuted in her first major film, Kita No Zeronen (北の零年?, a.k.a. Year One in the North), directed by Isao Yukisada, with the well-known actor Ken Watanabe, where she played the role of Tae Komatsubara. In December 2005, she debuted in Hollywood with Memoirs of a Geisha, directed by Rob Marshall, where she played the child version of the main protagonist Nitta Sayuri (the adult version is played by Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi). As a child, however, she is called Sakamoto Chiyo instead of Sayuri. During the same year, she also won the Japan Film Critics Award for Best Newcomer.

In 2006, Ohgo also starred in Baruto no Gakuen (バルトの楽園?, a.k.a. Symphony of Joy), which was released in June 2006 and is set during World War I, where she plays a girl of mixed German-Japanese heritage trying to find her German father who may be held there.

In 2008, she began lending her voice to anime in Michiko to Hatchin as Hana (AKA: "Hatchin"). She also provided the voice Kaita in Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box.

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Rin Takanashi

Native Name : 高梨 臨
Born               : December 17, 1988 Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Occupation    : Actress

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Rin Takanashi 高梨 臨 Takanashi Rin born December 17, 1988 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan is a Japanese actress. Takanashi starred in the 2007 film adaptation of the Japanese novel Goth as one of the lead characters, Yoru Morino. She starred in the 2009 Super Sentai series Samurai Sentai Shinkenger as one of the lead characters, Mako Shiraishi/Shinken Pink. She starred in Kamen Rider W Returns in July 2011. Rin Takanashi is part of the gravure idol group, Pink Jam Princess, with four others.
She co-starred with Ryo Kase in Abbas Kiarostami's 2012 film Like Someone in Love, then She starred in Killers in 2014.

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Mirei Kiritani

Native Name : 桐谷 美玲
Born               : December 16, 1989 Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Occupation     : Actress

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Kiritani Mirei 桐谷 美玲 Kiritani Mirei was born December 16, 1989 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese actress and fashion model.

Her acting career debut was in the film "Haru no Ibasho." She has appeared in numerous movies and TV dramas, such as "Gymnasium Baby," "From Me to You," "Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac" and "Runway Beat." Her gorgeous face and vigor has earned her a modeling deal with Seventeen magazine.

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Ai Hashimoto

Born           : January 12, 1996 Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Occupation : Actress, model

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Ai Hashimoto  橋本 愛 Hashimoto Ai born January 12th, 1996, in Kyushu's Kumamoto prefecture, Japan is a Japanese model and actress. She made her debut into the entertainment world after winning the grand prix in Newcome's HUAHUA Audition in 2008.

In 2009, she was one of 5,267 applicants to be selected from women's fashion magazine Seventeen's "Miss Magazine" competition, as well as the youngest grand prix winner out of her fellow competitors Kudo Emi, Takada Arisa and Hirose Alice.

In the same year, she made her acting debut with the film Give & Go, simultaneously landing her first starring role in the movie. She appeared in Confessions in 2010 and starred in The Kirishima Thing in 2012, for which she won new face awards from the Japan Academy and Kinema Junpo. She also appeared as Sadako in Sadako 3D

She represented by Sony Music Artists.She also appeared in a PV for a JUJU single.

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Kiko Mizuhara

Birth Name : Noriko Daniel
Born            : October 15, 1990 Dallas, Texas, United States
Ethnicity      : Korean American
Occupation  : Model, actress, singer

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Kiko Mizuhara 水原 希子 Mizuhara Kiko, born October 15, 1990 in Dallas, Texas, United States is an American/Japanese model, actress and singer based in Tokyo. Her birth name is Noriko Daniel, Her father is American and her mother is Japanese (Korean descent). She has one younger sister. At the age of 1, Kiko and her family moved to Kobe, Japan. When Kiko was 11-years-old, her parents divorced and she lived with her mother. Her nationality is USA.

In 2003, Kiko Mizuhara participated at an audition for fashion magazine Seventeen. At the audition, Kiko Mizuhara was picked as Miss Seventeen and became an exclusive model for Seventeen magazine for the next 3 years. In July 2007, Kiko Mizuhara became an exclusive model for fashion magazine ViVi.

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Fumi Nikaido

Born           : September 21, 1994 Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Occupation : Actress, Model

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Fumi Nikaido 二階堂 ふみ or Nikaidō Fumi was born 21 September 1994 in Okinawa Prefecture Japan is a Japanese actress and model. She becoming a model for the teen fashion magazine Nicola before making her acting debut in 2007. Nikaido creating characters that are radically different from each other, from the swaggering gangster’s daughter in “Jigoku de Naze Warui? (Why Don’t You Play in Hell?)” and the bubbly Gothic Lolita girl in “Shijukunichi no Recipe (Mourning Recipe)” to a cool-eyed student in the coming-of-age drama “Hotori no Sakuko (Au Revoir l’Eté),”

Starting as a model in Naha, Okinawa, Nikaidō made her film debut in 2009 in Toad's Oil, directed by Kōji Yakusho. Her breakthrough when she staring as violent teen hero in Sion Sono’s in drama “Himizu”. The film divided critics, but She and Shota Sometani received the Premio Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor and Actress for their work at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in 2011. Since then she has appeared in a succession of indie films, as well as a scattering of TV dramas.

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Yuriko Yoshitaka

Native Name : 吉高 由里子
Born               : July 22, 1988 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation     : Actress

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Yuriko Yoshitaka 吉高 由里子 (Yoshitaka Yuriko) was born July 22, 1988 in Tokyo, Japan is a Japanese actress who is represented by the Japanese agency Amuse.

Yoshitaka made her acting debut in 2006. She was given the lead role in the live-action adaptation of Hitomi Kanehara's award-winning novel Snakes and Earrings in 2007. Portraying Lui, a teenager whose life goes into a downward spiral after meeting the forked-tongued and tattooed Ama, the role was Yoshitaka's breakthrough role. The Japanese public began to take notice of her, and in a poll conducted by Oricon, Yoshitaka was the fifth promising young actress of 2009 and 2009's freshest female celebrity. In 2010, Oricon again conducted a poll on the most promising actress and she managed climb up to top the poll.
Yoshitaka began to receive more work in 2008 as she appeared in Flow's music video "Arigatō" (ありがとう?, "Thanks"), was given her first lead role in the comedy drama Konno-san to Asobo (紺野さんと遊ぼう Let’s Play with Konno-san?) and took up the lead role in the film Yubae Shōjo (夕映え少女 A Girl in the Sunset?) before the theatrical release of her other lead film Snakes and Earrings.
In 2009, Yoshitaka was given the role of the suicidal Kairi Hayakawa in the romantic-comedy drama Love Shuffle. Later in the year, she portrayed Yūki Matsunaga (松永 由岐 Matsunaga Yūki?) in the police drama Tokyo Dogs with Shun Oguri and Hiro Mizushima as her co-stars.
In 2010, she starred as all three sisters in a short drama series titled Tofu Shimai (豆腐姉妹 lit. Tofu Sisters?). It was announced on May 13, 2010 that Yoshitaka was given her first lead role in a network television drama series called Mioka (美丘?), portraying a university student with an incurable illness.
She played Tae Kojima in the two-part 2011 live-action adaptation of the sci-fi and action manga Gantz. She also took the lead role in Kōji Maeda's movie Konzen Tokkyū, portraying a young woman dating multiple men in hopes of finding the right one to marry. It premiered in Spring 2011.

While she was preparing for her role in Snakes and Earrings, Yoshitaka was involved with a traffic accident in September 2007, and she suffered a fractured jaw. She stayed in the Intensive-care unit (ICU) for five days as a result.

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Haruka Nakagawa

Born           :  10 February 1992 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation :  Singer, Actress

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Nakagawa Haruka (仲 川 遥 香 Haruka Nakagawa?, Born in Tokyo, February 10, 1992, is a Japanese idol and the idol group members JKT48 unit Watarirouka Hashiritai from AKB48. Previous Nakagawa is a member of AKB48 Team A.

Haruka Nakagawa was the second of five children. Her father, former professional wrestler, but his name kept secret. According to her testimony, she was asked to audition for AKB48 after her father. Nakagawa follow Auditions AKB48 Member Additions Force 3, and accepted on December 3, 2006. She said also, the reason she was accepted at the time, "For at least be able to dance and sing."  She was initially not very interested in music. Bought the first CD is required for the audition song AKB48's time, "Sakura no Hanabiratachi".

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Rena Nozawa

Another Name :  Rena-chan
Born                 :  May 6, 1998 Nagoya Japan
Occupation       :  Singer, Actress

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Rena Nozawa レナ · ノザワ or 野泽 玲奈 Nozawa Rena?, Was born in Nagoya, May 6, 1998 is a member of JKT48 idol group AKB48 Team A members concurrently. She is the only member from AKB48 AKB48 sister group outside the country.  She is also the only member of the group that overseas sister getting double position in the group home and AKB48.
Nozawa is a Japanese citizen of both Japan's elderly citizens. She is the only Japanese person who received training as a student passing JKT48 1st Generation Auditions in November 2011. When the two parents living in Jakarta.
Rena Nozawa is one of 22 students training First Generation appointed as a member of Team J in concert JKT48 First Anniversary Event, December 23, 2012.
Her appointment as a member of AKB48 and member Tim J JKT48 announced herself by Nozawa in front of the theater audience "Aturan Anti Cinta" at Theatre JKT48, June 18, 2013.  After being a member of AKB48 and member JKT48, Nozawa will be residing in Japan following the second domicile her parents.

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Leah Dizon

Real Name :  Leah Donna Dizon
Born           :  September 24, 1986 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Occupation :  Former Gaijin tarento, singer, and model

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Leah Dizon born September 24, 1986 is an American citizen who worked as a gaijin tarento, singer, and model in Japan. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, she moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2006 to pursue a career in entertainment. She made her recording debut on Victor Entertainment later that same year.

Childhood and youth Dizon at an Oxnard, California car show in 2005  Leah Donna Dizon was born in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 24, 1986. Her mother is of French descent and her father is half Filipino and half Chinese. Her parents work as casino dealers. Dizon is the fourth of six children: she has two older brothers, an older sister, and two younger brothers. In an interview, she explains that she listened to rock and R&B music and trained in dance since the age of 12. Dizon has said that her mother was "very strict and monitored Dizon's spending habits". When she was 14 years old, she worked at a clothing store and eventually saved enough money to travel to Japan alone for a trip.  She attended the Las Vegas Academy of Performing Arts for her freshman and sophomore years but graduated from the public Eldorado High School in 2004, where she became active in theater. At the age of 18, Dizon relocated to Los Angeles, California and attended college as a film major for her freshman year.

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Kutsuna Shiori

Name               :  忽那汐里 (くつな　しおり)
Also known as :  Kutsuna Shioli
Occupation       :  Actress
Birthdate          :  1992-Dec-22 Sydney, Australia

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Kutsuna Shiori くつな　しおり Also known Kutsuna Shioli was born 22 December 1992 in Sydney, Australia is a Japanese Actress.

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Yuuki Kana

Born           :  29 November 1993 Fukushima, Japan
Occupation :  Gravure Idol

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Kana Yuuki is a japanese idol born in Fukushima, Japan on 29 November 1993. Her blood type is O, and she is 153 cm tall.

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Yuria Haga

Born           :  November 27, 1987 Tokyo, Japan
Occupation :  Model, Actress

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Yuria Haga 芳賀 優 Haga Yuria?, born November 27, 1987 in Tokyo, Japan is a Japanese model and actress.

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Yumi Sugimoto

Born           :  April 1, 1989 Osaka, Japan
Occupation :  Actress, model, gravure idol, singer

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Yumi Sugimoto 杉本 有美 Sugimoto Yumi?, born April 1, 1989 is a Japanese model, actress, gravure idol and soloist under Hello! Project. Sugimoto began her career in modeling during elementary school, when she was chosen in a Grand-Prix semi-audition for the girls manga magazine Ribon.

In July 2007 she received her first lead role in TV Tokyo's late TV drama series Boys Esté. Her latest role is Miu Sutō/Go-on Silver in the 2008 TV Asahi's tokusatsu series Engine Sentai Go-onger. She stars also in Mutant Girls Squad under the direction from Tak Sakaguchi, Noburu Iguchi and Yoshihiro Nishimura.

Aside from singing character portrayal songs in Engine Sentai Go-onger, Sugimoto has expressed an interest in producing music. She released her debut single under Hello! Project, "Harukoi", composed by Tomosuke Funaki,produced by Tsunku on February 17, 2010.

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