{"id":9555,"date":"2016-11-12T19:36:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T11:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2016-11-11T19:37:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T11:37:25","slug":"save-the-date-60-years-of-philippines-japan-friendship-celebration-brings-akb48-to-manila-this-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/11\/12\/save-the-date-60-years-of-philippines-japan-friendship-celebration-brings-akb48-to-manila-this-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Save the Date! \u201860 Years of Philippines-Japan Friendship Celebration\u2019 brings AKB48 to Manila this December"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Embassy of Japan in the Philippines together with co-organizer, Hallohallo Entertainment Inc. are proud to present the \u201860 Years of Philippines-Japan Friendship Celebration\u2019, a free musical event at the Market!Market! Activity Center on December 4, 2016<\/span> featuring performances from popular Japanese girl group, AKB48.<\/p>\n

AKB48 is an all-girl group composed of numerous members, who are segregated into several teams.\u00a0 Based in Akihabara, thirty-two of their latest singles have consecutively topped the music charts in Japan.\u00a0 They have a wide fan base that extends around the world, including the Philippines.\u00a0 The group has expanded to include many other \u201csister groups\u201d in other areas of Japan and even abroad.\u00a0 Hijiri Tanikawa, Nanami Sato, Rin Okabe, Maria Shimizu, Ayane Takahashi, Nanase Yoshikawa, Serika Nagano, Kotone Hitomi, Riona Hamamatsu, Yurina Gyoten, Rena Fukuchi, and Karin Shimoaoki of AKB48 Team 8 will perform.<\/p>\n

The \u201860 Years of Philippines-Japan Friendship Celebration\u2019 is among a yearlong series of events organized to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Philippines-Japan Friendship and further promote cultural exchange and mutual understanding between the two countries. For more information regarding this event, please visit www.ph.emb-japan.go.jp<\/a> or call 551-5710 locals 2311 or 2312.<\/p>\n

What is AKB48?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lyricist Yasushi Akimoto serves as the overall producer.\u00a0\u00a0 An idol group that began its activities in December 2005. The concept is \u201cIdols You Can Meet\u201d.\u00a0 The unique point about the AKB48 Project is that the process of the idols growing can be shared with the fans.\u00a0 An exclusive \u201cAKB48 Theater\u201d is held for the girls in Akihabara, Tokyo, where there are daily performances with dance and song.<\/p>\n

The members are selected through a nationwide audition and are currently divided into 5 teams (Team A, K, B, 4, 8) and understudies.\u00a0 Sister groups in Japan include SKE48 in Nagoya, NMB48 in Osaka, HKT48 in Hakata, and NGT48 in Niigata.\u00a0 Sister groups abroad start with JKT48 in Jakarta, Indonesia, and announcements of TPE48 in Taipei, Taiwan, MNL48 in Manila, Philippines, and BNK48 in Bangkok, Thailand, have been made in 2016.\u00a0 \u201cSenbatsu Members\u201d selected from all members including those of sister groups in Japan perform the title song when new CD singles are released.
\nAKB48 has performed in many places abroad including New York, Los Angeles, Cannes, Paris, Moscow, Macao, Korea, and Taiwan, and holds especially high popularity in Asia.<\/p>\n

Newly released songs hold a 26-time consecutive million seller record and engages in various activities as an idol group representing Japan such as holding regular shows and appearances in TV, radio, and magazines, while holding theatre performances as its base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Embassy of Japan in the Philippines together with co-organizer, Hallohallo Entertainment Inc. are proud to present the \u201860 Years of Philippines-Japan Friendship Celebration\u2019, a free musical event at the Market! Market! Activity Center on December 4, 2016 featuring performances from popular Japanese girl group, AKB48.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/unnamed-6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9557,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions\/9557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}