“Now gaining popularity overseas! Nippon Broadcasting System is bringing you an English translation of the AKB48 program that has been downloaded over 150,000 times!

Application for iPhone/iPod touch “AKB48’s Yuki Kashiwagi and Aki Takajo All Night Nippon Mobile” is now available with English-subtitles!

Nippon Broadcasting System has been broadcasting “AKB48’s Yuki Kashiwagi and Aki Takajo All Night Nippon Mobile” on mobile phones since January, and via an iPhone/iPod touch application since May.

Now, available on our app store, we’ll start selling an iPhone/iPod touch application with English subtitles for “AKB48’s Yuki Kashiwagi and Aki Takajo All Night Nippon Mobile.”


In July, AKB48 performed in Los Angeles. Due to their growing popularity abroad, they have more overseas performances coming up. Since iPhone/iPod touch apps make it easy to sell audio content overseas, we have upgraded the program to include English-subtitles.

On “All Night Nippon Mobile English-subtitled version,” English subtitles are displayed at the bottom of the screen so that fans in foreign countries, who do not understand Japanese, can follow the contents of the program. The original recording of Yuki Kashiwagi’s and Aki Takajo’s voices is used, so the program can be enjoyed similar to a movie with subtitles.

The first 3 episodes of “AKB48’s Yuki Kashiwagi and Aki Takajo All Night Nippon Mobile” is available on the iPhone/iPod touch app, and the first 7 episodes are available on mobile phones. There have been over 150,000 downloads to date! For this content, we are also going to sell English-subtitled versions for each episode individually.
Nippon Broadcasting System will enrich the content of “All Night Nippon Mobile English version” and proactively promote sales.

App for the iPhone/iPod touch
“AKB48’s Yuki Kashiwagi and Aki Takajo All Night Nippon Mobile(English-translation compliant version)” 1st edition.”

Date of delivery: X X, 2010 onwards
Rate: 350yen ($2.99)
Duration : Total 8 files (approx. 55 minutes)


source :tokyohive