is a member of the Japanese idol

Japanese idol

In Japanese culture, are media personalities in their teens and early twenties who are considered particularly attractive or cute and who will, for a period ranging from several months to a few years, regularly appear in the mass media, e.g...

 group AKB48

AKB48

AKB48 is a Japanese female idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto.The group has achieved enormous popularity in Japan. Its ten latest consecutive singles topped the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart...

, as well as a soloist.

Biography

In 2005, she joined the all-female Japanese idol group AKB48. After becoming a model for the popular woman's fashion magazine Cawaii!

Cawaii!

Cawaii! is a fashion magazine published in Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Thailand, and previously in Japan.Launched as a monthly gal fashion magazine targeted at women in their teens in Japan in March 1996, Cawaii! grew to be one of Japan's major gal magazines, and spawned its two sister...

, she released her first photo book titled T.O.M.O.row in April 2009. In early 2010 she played Shibuya in the AKB48

AKB48

AKB48 is a Japanese female idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto.The group has achieved enormous popularity in Japan. Its ten latest consecutive singles topped the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart...

 TV Tokyo dorama "Majisuka Gakuen". She had a recurring role on Kamen Rider W as Queen, alongside friend Tomomi Kasai

Tomomi Kasai

, born November 16, 1991 in Tokyo, Japan, is a singer, actress, footsal player and a member of idol group AKB48 under Team B. She had a recurring role on Kamen Rider W as Elizabeth, alongside group member Tomomi Itano...

, until the show ended in late 2010. Together, they made up the sub-unit Queen & Elizabeth

Queen & Elizabeth

Queen & Elizabeth is a sub-unit of the Japanese pop band AKB48 consisting of members Tomomi Itano and Tomomi Kasai. The unit is named after the fictional characters the girls portray in the Kamen Rider W television series and films...

.

Itano ranked 4th place in the second AKB48 Senbatsu election (June 2010).

2011 Activities

She released her first single, "Dear J", on January 26. It currently holds 3rd place in Recochoku (largest Japanese ring tone site) Chaku Uta ranking. It reached number 1 on the Oricon daily ranking and number 2 on the Oricon weekly ranking, selling 204,981 copies. In April, she returned to her role as Shibuya on the "Majisuka Gakuen" sequel, "Majisuka Gakuen 2". Her first digital single "Wanna Be Now" ranked number 2 on the daily Recochoku charts and number 6 on the weekly charts.

Itano ranked 8th place in the third AKB48 Senbatsu election (June 9, 2011). Her second single "Fuini" was released on July 13 and sold 90,103 copies, ranking #1 on the weekly charts.

Singles

• Bingo!
  Bingo!
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• Baby! Baby! Baby!
• River
  River (AKB48 song)
  "River" is the 14th major single by the Japanese idol group AKB48, released on October 21, 2009. It was the first AKB48's single to top the Oricon weekly singles chart, having sold 179,000 copies in its first week...
  
  
• Beginner
  Beginner (song)
  -Beginner:*Team A: Haruna Kojima, Rino Sashihara, Mariko Shinoda, Aki Takajo, Minami Takahashi, Atsuko Maeda...
  
  
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• • Alive (as Team K)
  • - as Yasai Sisters 2011
• Included in

  (as Team K)

Sub units

• Honegumi from AKB48
• Natto Angels
• Queen & Elizabeth
  Queen & Elizabeth
  Queen & Elizabeth is a sub-unit of the Japanese pop band AKB48 consisting of members Tomomi Itano and Tomomi Kasai. The unit is named after the fictional characters the girls portray in the Kamen Rider W television series and films...
  
  
• Team Dragon from AKB48

Stage units

Team A 1st Stage

Team A 2nd Stage

Team A 3rd Stage

Team A 4th Stage

1. Faint

Himawarigumi 1st Stage

Himawarigumi 2nd Stage

1. Confession

Team A 5th Stage

Team K 6th Stage "Reset"

Movies

Year	| English title	| Japanese title	| Role
2007	Densen Uta Densen Uta is a 2007 Japanese satiric Japanese horror film produced by Shochiku Corporation and directed by Masato Harada.- Synopsis :Anzu Natsuno , an ordinary student at an all-girls high school, is walking in the hallway when she is attracted by a mysterious melody coming from the auditorium...	伝染歌
2008	Ai Ryutsu Center	愛流通センター
2009	Kamen Rider W: Begins Night	仮面ライダーＷ（ダブル）～ビギンズナイト～
2010	Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate	仮面ライダーＷ（ダブル） Forever AtoZ／運命のガイアメモリ

Radio

• AKB48 (2007-10-15, Bunka Broadcasting) (2008-04-07 - present, TBS Radio podcasting954) (2010-04-09 - )

Commercials

• NTT Docomo
  NTT DoCoMo
  is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese. Docomo provides phone, video phone , i-mode , and mail services...
  
  (2006)
• Kirin Nuda by Kirin Beverage (2008) (2010-08-10 - ) (2010-08-21 - )

Web

• Private Princess (2007.11.01-present, Horipro Productions)
• Midtown TV (2007-11-06, GyaO)
• Kirin Nuda Presents "Kirin Nuda Lemon&Tonick" Sukkiriman Site (2008-03-25 - 05-31)
• AKB48 in Horipro (2008-04-01 - present, Yahoo! Douga) (2008-07-25 - present, Yomiuri TV)

External links

• Official blog at Ameblo