is a Japanese

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and former

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. She is a former member of the Japanese idol

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AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol musical girl group named after the Akihabara area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48 has sold more records than any other female musical act in Japanese history. AK ...

, where she was part of Team B.

Biography

Uchiyama passed

's 14th generation auditions on 13 May 2012. She debuted on 9 July 2012. In August 2013, she was promoted to the newly formed Team 4. In February 2014, during the AKB48 Group Shuffle, it was announced that Uchiyama would be transferred to Team B. In April 2014, Uchiyama enrolled in

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. In the 2014 AKB48 Group general election, Uchiyama ranked for the first time at 63rd place. Uchiyama's special skill as an idol was to recite articles of the

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. In July 2014, she collaborated with , then an associate professor at

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School of Law, to write a book titled regarding the Japanese Constitution. They co-wrote the book with the hope that Japanese teenagers would get a basic grounding and become interested in constitutional

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, since although the voting age in Japan has been lowered to 18 years old, education on the matter was considered lacking. On November 1, 2015, she announced her graduation from AKB48, and she completed her final activity as a member on February 21, 2016. As of October 16, 2017, she was signed to

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and was billed as a . From January to March 2018, she was a participant in , a political variety show inspired by ''

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'', which was broadcast on the

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channel . In March 2018, she graduated from the Faculty of Economics of

and left Horipro. She joined the

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advertising agency the same year. In 2020, her team won the Grand Prix in the Brain Online Video Award competition.

Discography

AKB48 singles

Appearances

Stage units

;''AKB48 Kenkyuusei Stage '' # ;''Team 4 2nd Stage '' # ;''AKB48 Team B 3rd Stage (Revival)'' #

TV variety

* ''

AKBingo! ''AKBingo!'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese television variety show featuring Japanese idol girl group AKB48. The show aired weekly on Nippon Television. In each episode, members of AKB48 and occasionally their sister groups participate in ...

TV dramas

* (2015), Kenpou (Team Hinabe) * (2015), Kenpou (Team Hinabe)

Bibliography

* (2014), , co-authored with Shigeru Minamino

References

External links

*
Natsuki Uchiyama
on

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(last act on AKB48) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Uchiyama, Natsuki 1995 births Living people Japanese idols Japanese women pop singers Singers from Kanagawa Prefecture AKB48 members Keio University alumni