Sayaka Akimoto
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Sayaka Akimoto at the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival, in October 2015
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| Native name | 秋元 才加 |
| Born | Matsudo, Chiba, Japan |
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| Genres | J-pop |
| Years active | 2006 - present |
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| Website | www |
Sayaka Akimoto (秋元 才加 Akimoto Sayaka?, born in Matsudo, Chiba), is a Japanese-Filipino singer, dancer, actress, television host, and model. She is best known as being a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48, where she had served as the captain of Team K and has also been involved in the AKB48 sub-unit Diva.
Akimoto has a Filipino mother, and in 2012 ran the Tokyo Marathon for the second year in a row and donated the money to the Philippines. Her solo book of photographs is entitled Ari no Mama. On June 26, 2014, Akimoto was appointed as the Goodwill Philippine Tourism Ambassador in order to promote the Philippines as a tourist destination in Japan. She was also assigned as a narrator in the collaboration drama of PTV-4 and Nippon TV entitled "Halo Halo House-Jose's Nippon Diary"
Akimoto is close with Sae Miyazawa (dubbed together as Twin Tower) and Yuko Oshima.
Akimoto began her career in AKB48 as one of the members of the second generation, the Original Team K. On the last day of the Budokan concert on August 23, 2009, during the first team shuffle, Akimoto was officially made captain of Team K. She resigned after a scandal in 2010 but after completing the Tokyo Marathon in 2011, she was reappointed the position. On August 24, 2012, in the Tokyo Dome~1830m no Yume~ concert, Yuko Oshima replaced her as the captain of Team K via team shuffle.
She has since been involved with sub-unit group Diva under Avex. She became a regular on the popular noon TV show Waratte Iitomo from 2010 to 2012. She was also featured as one of the members in AKB48's own anime TV show alongside other members Minami Takahashi, Yuko Oshima, Tomomi Itano, Atsuko Maeda and others.
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