Explaining Dogeza at Gingham Check Handshake
As fans are recovering from yesterday’s Gingham Check Handshake Festival, they awoke this morning to a pair of viral images on Twitter. The two images show a group of JKT48 fans kneeling and bowing...
Author: Richardson Kilis
JKT48 3rd Generation Jakarta Shimbun Profiles
Four months ago, Indonesia’s leading Japanese-language newspaper The Daily Jakarta Shimbun began printing weekly profiles of individual members of JKT48’s third generation. Two members would be featured in the newspaper every Wednesday in a...
@JAM EXPO: Official Book and Twitter Reactions
Sunday’s performance at @JAM EXPO in Yokohama Arena was JKT48’s first in Japan without its parent sister group AKB48. This can be considered a milestone because it may mean that JKT48 is finally being...
Event Report: JKT48 at AFAID 2014
First of all, I’d like to apologize for the lateness of this report. Although we tried to report on JKT48’s appearance at Anime Festival Asia Indonesia (AFAID) 2014 on Twitter, the sheer number of...
Auditions for Japanese Production of “The Wiz”
Yesterday night’s broadcast of AKBINGO! (episode 303) revealed that 101 members of AKB48 Group recently completed the first round of auditions for the lead role in the second Japanese production of the stage musical…
Okayama University Students React to JKT48
Melody Nurramdhani Laksani has been reappointed to her position as Okayama Prefecture fruit ambassador, The Sanyo Shimbun reports. The ceremony was officiated by Ryuta Ibaragi, Governor of Okayama Prefecture, and attended by fellow JKT48...
