[Concert] AKB48/SKE48/NMB48/SDN48 concerts in Singapore

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Latest Update!
 13:00 - 06.09.11 (TUE)
 指原 莉乃 Rino Sashihara Special Café Visit!

 Each S$35 Session Ticket include:

 1 x special food voucher for 1 meal item
 (Any Pasta or Omu Rice / Curry)*

 1 x complimentary drink during café event.

 Customers with fully stamped point cards, may redeem their cards for one session ticket. Limited to the first 20 point card holders only.
 Tickets on sale at the AKB48 Official Café Singapore from 12pm 04.06.11 onwards!

 *Special Food Voucher is only valid till 06.10.11
 Terms and Condition Apply.

facebook.com/akb48singapore

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SKE48 members in Singapore:


Image creditエリオルの日記

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Credit akbsgnet

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My video

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After the stage

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^Thanks for sharing!!!    I am really so happy for you!!! 

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Sashihara Rino in Singapore:



Source http://ameblo.jp/sashihara-rino/entry-11009595639.html

Sashihara Rino at the AKB48 Singapore Cafe:



Image creditエリオルの日記

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Sashihara Rino in Singapore:



Vids:


Credit ToShibuya11

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Promo poster out today:

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Akb48 Singapore
News Flash! 03.10.11 (MON) AKB48 Singapore Official Cafe and Shop Special Visit! Featuring Minami Takahashi 高橋 みなみ ! More details to be announced!

http://www.facebook.com/akb48singapore?_fb_noscript=1

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ANNOUNCEMENT! MINAMI TAKAHASHI 高橋みなみ SPECIAL CAFE AND SHOP EVENT DETAILS!

Minami Takahashi 高橋みなみ, Captain of AKB48’s Team A will in Singapore on 03.10.11 (MON). She will be having cafe and shop events during her stay in Singapore to meet her fans.

CAFE EVENT
There will be three events at the cafe. The door open timings are as follows:

Session 1 - 15:15
Session 2 - 16:30
Session 3 - 17:45

Ticket sales will start on Saturday 01.10.11 12pm at the AKB48 Official Cafe Singapore. Fans can either purchase their tickets at SGD35 each or redeem a limited number of tickets using a completed AKB48 point card with 20 stamps. Limited quantities of tickets are available for redemption.

Overseas fans can apply for tickets by sending in an e-mail with the subject:
‘Minami Takahashi 高橋みなみ cafe Event Application’
to contact@akb48com.sg with the following details:

Name:
E-mail:
Contact number:
Passport number:
Preferred Session:

Applications will close on Saturday 11:59 and successful applicants will be notified by Saturday 23:59. Collection of these balloting tickets will start on Sunday 12pm. Please produce your-email and passport as proof of identity when collecting the tickets. Uncollected tickets will be sold 30mins before the start of each event.

The duration of each session will be approximately 45 minutes. Each ticket comes with a Calpis drink and an entree dish. The Calpis soda drink will be served during the event and the entree dish can only be redeemed after the event through the same event ticket. The redemption period for this dish will be only two weeks and end on 17.10.11.

Please note that each customer is only allowed to purchase a maximum of two tickets only, for one chosen session, and may not purchase multiple sessions for each customer. This is to allow as many different fans as possible to attend the event.

SHOP EVENT
After the cafe events, Minami Takahashi 高橋みなみwill be having a hand shake session with fans in the shop at 1830. Starting from 01.10.11 (SAT), the first 50 fans who purchase more than SGD20 worth of goods, excluding Singapore Exclusive AKB48 Photo Sets, will be entitled to one handshake session coupon.

Minami Takahashi 高橋みなみ in Singapore! Don’t miss it! ^^

Source http://www.facebook.com/akb48singapore?_fb_noscript=1

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(Mainichi Japan) October 1, 2011

Japan's AKB48 all-girl group sensation spreads to Asia


SINGAPORE (Kyodo) -- The first overseas AKB48 Official Cafe, where fans of the huge Japanese all-girl pop group can meet its members while having a meal or tea, opened in Singapore in July and has since gathered enthusiasts from across Asia.

The growing international popularity of the group, created in 2005 with the concept "Idols you can meet every day," has also caught the eye of the Japanese government and corporate officials trying to boost the country's content business and exports on the strength of Japanese pop culture.

The cafe opened in a building that also houses a 500-seat theater where members of AKB48 and its sister units fly to from Japan for regular twice-a-month concerts, with tickets priced at S$50. Events are held more frequently at the cafe, for which fans can buy S$35 tickets to meet the members there and have Japanese-style meals and drinks.

One such fan event was held in early September at the cafe, when some members of SKE48, a sister group based in Nagoya, visited.

A 28-year-old man said he came all the way from Hong Kong, paying about 50,000 yen in travel expenses. There were also fans who had traveled from Taiwan and Malaysia.

The company employee from Hong Kong said he has been a big fan of SKE48 since he saw a video of one of their concerts on the Internet.

"I like this place, because it can make us feel close to them. We can hardly buy the tickets for their concerts in Japan (due to strong demand), but here we can even shake hands with them!" he said excitedly while awaiting the appearance of the girls.

Dozens of fans, mostly men who looked to be in their 20s-30s, who packed the cafe cheered when some SKE48 members, including Riho Abiru, 18, finally appeared.

The operator of the cafe said tickets for fan events are often sold out in 20 minutes, especially when popular members participate. The SKE48 girls also gave a concert at the theater.

Just like in Japan, the audience shouted in unison with precise timing and danced vibrantly during each song.

"I was surprised to find that fans here act exactly the same way as in Japan, including mix," Abiru said after the concert. "Mix" refers to fan chants during or before songs, often seen in the concerts of Japanese idol groups.


AKB48 members, from left to right; Tomomi Kasai, Mayu Watanabe, Minami Takahashi and Rino Sashihara talk to reporters at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport, where they arrived on Sept. 23 to take part in Shanghai Japan Week 2011. (Mainichi)
The creation of the base in Singapore has been helping the popularity of AKB48, SKE48 and other associated groups to rise rapidly in Asia.

Created by TV and music producer Yasushi Akimoto and composed of roughly 48 core members, AKB48 has been performing at its own theater in Tokyo's Akihabara almost every day and has become one of the most popular Japanese idol groups of all time.

The troop consisting of AKB48 and its sister groups created later such as SKE48 in the central Japan city, NMB48 in Osaka and HKT48 in Fukuoka, has a total of over 150 members.

"It is vital (for entertainers) to stay on site in order to establish their names abroad. The troop of AKB48 have realized it," said Haruhiko Miyano, who works at Dentsu Singapore Pte. Ltd., a local subsidiary of Japanese advertising giant Dentsu Inc., and is involved with the AKB48 project in Singapore.

The pop idols are also attracting Japanese government agencies and private companies pursuing a growth strategy linked to modern Japanese culture such as animation, fashion and food under the "Cool Japan" slogan.

Prior to their popularity, Japan had lagged behind South Korea in expanding such business into overseas markets. South Korea has made particular use of its popular TV dramas.

"AKB48 provides new content with the potential to substantially improve the image of Japan," said a senior official of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. For example, the official said Japanese companies may feature AKB48 in their TV commercials to be aired in key Asian markets.

AKB48 as a business model looks to continue evolving further.

Projects are under way to form sister groups in several Asian countries, starting with "JKT48," which is expected to be launched in Indonesia's capital Jakarta by the end of this year.

Future plans include holding "general elections" in such Asian countries, or annual votes by fans to choose their favorite members, which draws wide public attention in Japan, and to give a joint concert by several Japanese and other Asian units.

At the cafe in Singapore, local girls in school uniforms also take to the stage mimicking AKB48.

According to Shawn Chin, executive director of SOZO Pte Ltd., which collaborates with AKB48's Japanese management agent AKS Co. to bring the girls to Singapore, more and more girls in the country are influenced by AKB48 to aspire to become idols.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/arts/news/20111001p2g00m0et032000c.html

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Takamina @ Changi Airport – 3rd October 2011
Posted by Infinity Zer0

Takahashi Minami just arrived at the Changi Airport, Singapore, today (3rd October, Monday) at approx 05:50am in the morning…..here are the pictures of them at the airport today ^^ 

Note:
 Feel free to use these pix on your website or forum but please keep the credit intact and do link back this site in return. Thanks ^^

Link back http://www.akb-sg.net/?p=458

Photos by Infinity Zer0


Photos by eriol

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The 1st picture is courtesy of AKB48 Singapore Facebook Page:




New post at http://www.akb-sg.net/?p=462

Takamina Cafe Event – 3rd October 2011

Just came back from the cafe event today at Scape…went for the 1st session, as that’s the only one i can get…Anyways, the event is around 45 mins long and it includes the usual Q & A sessions, and Janken game (the lucky winner receive an Flying Get CD autographed by takamina).

Anyways, i’m still trying to upload a 12 minutes clip of the Q & A session (from the 1st session), so stay tuned!! ^^  In the mean time, here are some pictures from the event today.

Note:
 As Usual….Feel free to use these pix on your website or forum but please keep the credit intact and do link back this site in return. Thanks ^^

Pix by http://www.akb-sg.net

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Fancams

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According to http://nmb48-staff.laff.jp/blog/2011/10/2-e8df.html

NMB48 will be performing in Singapore on December 4, 2011

Update: promo image from AKB48 Singapore

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AKB48 promo on a Singapore public bus: