Otaku band AKB48 morphs into $200M business

News on Japan Tuesday 7th February, 2012

(Credit: AKS) What if the vice president of your university were a genius producer who had put together an insanely successful pop group of 90 singers and then approved the creation of identical doll versions of them? Weird? Not for Kyoto University of Art and Design and Yasushi Akimoto, the Steve Jobs of otaku (supergeeks) in Japan. The s...

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