Topping this week’s singles charts is popular AKB48 idol Mayu Watanabe (Mayuyu) and her 3rd solo single “Hikaru mono tachi / Sayonara no Hashi” selling over 91,000 copies. The single’s coupling track “Sayonara no Hashi” is featured as the...

AKB48 and Watarirouka Hashiritai’s Watanabe Mayu (17) took some time before her first photobook (“Mayuyu”) release commemoration event to answer questions from the press. Watanabe’s rear, already said to be her pride, will be featured in the photobook in a two-page spread along with an earnest expression. Looking at her own behind objectively, she noted,...