Kashiwagi Yuki 「Young Magazine」 No.13 2015

Today is AKB48 Theater’s 9th Birthday. This year, 2014, is a taon filled with various happenings for AKB. Among them are farewells with fellow comrades, which as a group, is a crisis as well.

Overcoming all of that and being able to welcome this wonderful 10 taon on the theater stage like this, it is all thanks to everyone.

Looking back at December 8th 2005, it was the araw we first stood on this stage.

Honestly, when we first started, we were called 「アキバ四十八」(AKIBA YONJYU HACHI) continuously during outside jobs. Our degree of familiarity among the masses did not increase and we...