{"id":81693,"date":"2013-06-10T12:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&p=37710"},"modified":"2016-04-01T02:57:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T17:57:45","slug":"kyushu-hkt48-girl-oita-monkey-both-win-popularity-elections","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kyushu-hkt48-girl-oita-monkey-both-win-popularity-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyushu HKT48 Girl & Oita Monkey Both Win Popularity Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fifth annual AKB48 election took place at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on 6\/8 (Sat.) The AKB48 election concept, which began in 2009, invites the Japanese public to vote for their favorite members of the pop idol group. The AKB48 members who receive the most votes participate in the recording of the group\u2019s next single and are heavily promoted. This year, Oita-born Rino Sashihara, a member of Fukuoka local troupe \u201cHKT48\u201d came in first with a total of 150,570 votes. Sashihara transferred, (some say she was banished) from AKB48 to HKT48 last year, but her popularity didn\u2019t diminish. The total number of votes for the election came in at 2,646,847 votes. The Top 16 will record a song, scheduled to be released in August. Meanwhile, Mt Takasaki announced the winner of their \u201cmonkey election\u201d on the same day as the AKB48 election (6\/8). Located in Oita, Mt. Takasaki is a habitat of wild Japanese monkeys (Japanese macaques). The \u201cmonkey election\u201d concept was based on AKB48 elections – a \u201cmonkey see, monkey do kind of thing\u201d. The winning monkey \u201cPi-chan\u201d received a total of 329 votes. Her charming point is a white marking on her back. Coming in at a close second with 320 votes was a zookeeper from Mt. Takasaki, who entered the election as a human representative. The zookeeper commented she was relieved she didn\u2019t actually win, because it\u2019s a monkey election, so a monkey should be the focus! A \u201cTop Saru Seven\u201d hand fan will be released to celebrate the top seven monkeys. Official HP: http:\/\/www.takasakiyama.jp <\/a><\/p>\n

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The fifth annual AKB48 election took place at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on 6\/8 (Sat.) The AKB48 election concept, which began in 2009, invites the Japanese public to vote for their favorite members of the pop idol group. The AKB48 members who receive the most votes participate in the recording of the group\u2019s next single and are heavily promoted. This year, Oita-born Rino Sashihara, a member of Fukuoka local troupe \u201cHKT48\u201d came in first with a total of 150,570 votes. Sashihara transferred, (some say she was banished) from AKB48 to HKT48 last year, but her popularity didn\u2019t diminish. The total number of votes for the election came in at 2,646,847 votes. The Top 16 will record a song, scheduled to be released in August. Meanwhile, Mt Takasaki announced the winner of their \u201cmonkey election\u201d on the same day as the AKB48 election (6\/8). Located in Oita, Mt. Takasaki is a habitat of wild Japanese monkeys (Japanese macaques). The \u201cmonkey election\u201d concept was based on AKB48 elections – a \u201cmonkey see, monkey do kind of thing\u201d. The winning monkey \u201cPi-chan\u201d received a total of 329 votes. Her charming point is a white marking on her back. Coming in at a close second with 320 votes was a zookeeper from Mt. Takasaki, who entered the election as a human representative. The zookeeper commented she was relieved she didn\u2019t actually win, because it\u2019s a monkey election, so a monkey should be the focus! A \u201cTop Saru Seven\u201d hand fan will be released to celebrate the top seven monkeys. Official HP: http:\/\/www.takasakiyama.jp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-81693","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/81693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}