Ex-AKB Sayaka Akimoto releases her photobook, reveals her inferiority complex: "It's different from being half-American or half-British"

1： ハーフネルソンスープレックス(埼玉県) 2013/10/28(月) 23:23:17.42 ID:Z4y2fmRMP

Ex-AKB48 member Sayaka Akimoto (25) released her 1st photobook Ari no mama at Shibuya's Tower Records.

In the book, she opens up about her inferiority complex of having a Filipina mother and a Japanese father, saying: "I may be a halfie, but it's different from being half-American or half-British. It was really hard to say that I'm half-Filipino".

"I kept thinking 'What am I?' for 7 and a half years while I was spending time together with all these other idols like Mayuyu and Yuko. But I am able to stay active and have work because of my shoulder width that's bigger than anyone else's in AKB, and my muscles. I cherished these traits as these define who I really am." "Now I am proud when I say that I'm half-Filipino, and I hope that I can give give a helping hand to everyone else who are half-bred and is in the same situation as I was, and people who have no confidence".

And with her graduation from AKB48 last August, she is now freed from the "no-relationships" rule. She was asked at the event if she has "found love", to which she replied, "Nothing has changed at all." "Maybe, if I meet someone nice". About her type of man, she said: "I'm a really troublesome girl, so I'd like someone who can accept that, and people like those persistent goats".

"I may look like a herbivore, but I actually like carnivorous men who are like meat rolled in cabbage leaves. Like the ones whom you send 1 text message to but reply with 5." She smiles and follows this up with: "I'm the type who totally gets absorbed in a relationship. If I fall too much in love with a person, I might not be able to work anymore".

Akimoto has also declared that she will try her best as an actress. "It's true that Yuko has stimulated that feeling in me. We've spent our youth together each and every single day in AKB, so I think that both of us have something to offer as actresses".

Source: http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/8194399/

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1： ハーフネルソンスープレックス(埼玉県) 2013/10/28(月) 23:23:17.42 ID:Z4y2fmRMP

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8： TEKKAMAKI(新疆ウイグル自治区) 2013/10/28(月) 23:25:23.66 ID:GaRCBPvL0

AKB混血リスト

AKB mixed-breed list

大島優子　アメリカ（クォーター）

Yuko Oshima - America (quarter)

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秋元才加　フィリピン

Sayaka Akimoto - Philippines

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平田梨奈　アメリカ

Rina Hirata - America

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サイード横田絵玲奈　パキスタン

Erena Saeed-Yokota - Pakistan

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奥真奈美　イタリア

Manami Oku - Italy

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長谷川晴奈　フィリピン

Haruna Hasegawa - Philippines

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木下有希子　スペイン

Yukiko Kinoshita - Spain

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山下ゆかり　フィリピン

Yukari Yamashita - Philippines

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斉藤真木子　フィリピン

Makiko Saito - Philippines

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與儀ケイラ　ブラジル（クォーター）

Kayla Yogi - Brazil (quarter)

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谷口愛理　フィリピン

Airi Taniguchi - Philippines

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村重杏奈　ロシア

Anna Murashige - Russia

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齋藤飛鳥　ミャンマー

Asuka Saito - Myanmar

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宮澤成良　フランス（クォーター）

Seira Miyazawa - France (quarter)

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15： キャプチュード(庭) 2013/10/28(月) 23:27:42.46 ID:gNoDdbMG0

>>8

イタリアがずば抜けてるな

完勝でお見事だわ

Italy's standing out from the rest.
It's such a comprehensive victory, outstanding.

18： ツームストンパイルドライバー(愛知県) 2013/10/28(月) 23:28:06.95 ID:uJWc2blM0

>>8

フィリピン大杉ワロタ

LOL, there really are a lot of Filipinas, huh

82： ときめきメモリアル(滋賀県) 2013/10/28(月) 23:43:09.07 ID:4OeYt1Nw0

>>8

AKBってこんな混血多いのか　しらんかった

I didn't know that AKB had this many mix-breeds

111： スリーパーホールド(愛知県) 2013/10/28(月) 23:56:41.72 ID:dJcYUdyt0

>>8

MNL(マニラ)48でも良いかも知れんな

They could've even called this MNL(Manila)48 

145： ローリングソバット(dion軍) 2013/10/29(火) 00:16:36.23 ID:8ixcVJr+0

>>8

イタリアの血が最強すぎるｗ

Italian blood is the mightiest w

206： 足4の字固め(埼玉県) 2013/10/29(火) 01:08:36.03 ID:KPnoJTM10

>>8

ミャンマー優勝

Champion: Myanmar

259： 雪崩式ブレーンバスター(東京都) 2013/10/29(火) 02:14:12.26 ID:vijL7vc+0

>>8

小島ってクォーターだと聞いたが

I heard that Kojima's a quarter

9： テキサスクローバーホールド(やわらか銀行) 2013/10/28(月) 23:25:25.20 ID:h5XVzLlt0

顔が濃いと思ってたけどハーフだったのか

初めて知った

I always thought she had deep facial features, so she was a halfie?
This is my first time knowing it.

11： キャプチュード(庭) 2013/10/28(月) 23:25:54.33 ID:gNoDdbMG0

どうせフィリピンパブで孕ましたんだろうなと思ってしまう

The first impression you get is that her dad just probably knocked up some girl in a Philippine pub

14： 腕ひしぎ十字固め(関東・甲信越) 2013/10/28(月) 23:27:17.14 ID:EXzKXEHN0

差別されていると思う自分の弱さを他人のせいにするな

Don't blame your own weakness on others if you think you're being discriminated

20： ミラノ作 どどんスズスロウン(福島県) 2013/10/28(月) 23:28:53.98 ID:7jWEfNPv0

差別されてるけど人気アイドルグループの中心メンバーになれちゃうんか　そうか

So she's being discriminated but she still gets to become one of the main members of a popular idol group. I see.

21： 男色ドライバー(神奈川県) 2013/10/28(月) 23:28:59.93 ID:ZJLQ6sMm0

美人のフィリピンハーフと

ブサイクの純日本人

どっちが差別受けるか

A beautiful half-Filipina, or an ugly pure Japanese.
Which would be the one who'd be discriminated?

30： ビッグブーツ(関東・甲信越) 2013/10/28(月) 23:31:22.76 ID:8RggG8pMO

このコは別に悪くないけど、関東だと蒲田、川崎あたりでサエないオッサンとフィリピン人のカップルはよく見る。

日本の女性に相手にされなくて、フィリピンパブでいれあげちゃったんだろうなぁと想像し正直、侮蔑の眼差しで見てしまう。

There's nothing wrong with her, but in Kamata and Kawasaki of the Kanto region, you see a lot of couples like an old Japanese man together with a Filipina. 
If you imagine that a Japanese woman didn't give a damn about the man and he was accepted by someone from a Philippine pub then honestly, you'd look down on them.

122： ファイナルカット(大阪府) 2013/10/29(火) 00:04:05.22 ID:X3YSM2Jg0

>>30

それを知ってるから肩身が狭いんだろな

And she knows that, and is precisely why she feels inferior

56： ナガタロックII(埼玉県) 2013/10/28(月) 23:36:44.37 ID:gEynS2830

秋元才加の腹筋

Sayaka Akimoto's abs

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62： マシンガンチョップ(京都府) 2013/10/28(月) 23:37:12.22 ID:SuFdvUBH0

白人コンプをこじらせてる辺り、君は立派な日本人だよ

You're a Japanese person because of that Caucasian complex that you have

66： ランサルセ(やわらか銀行) 2013/10/28(月) 23:39:01.75 ID:DYFbn1tj0

白人コンプの日本だからしょうがない

Japanese people have a complex for white people, it can't be helped

80： ネックハンギングツリー(茸) 2013/10/28(月) 23:42:30.59 ID:lolWVJN80

美人だからいいじゃん

She's beautiful, who cares

95： ダイビングヘッドバット(dion軍) 2013/10/28(月) 23:48:05.88 ID:K7obDtdB0

まあピーナといえば女に一切モテないオッサン専用嫁というのが定番だしそれが真実だからな

東南アジアの中では結構可愛い人多い方だとは思うけどそんな理由でピーナは避けるでしょ、普通の人は

Well, it can't be denied that everyone's already got this image that Filipinas are wives of these old guys who aren't popular with women. And that's actually true.
I think that they're a race with a lot of cute girls even in Southeast Asia, but people normally avoid them for the reason said above.

108： マシンガンチョップ(新疆ウイグル自治区) 2013/10/28(月) 23:55:17.55 ID:GZZao7qx0

エキゾチックな容姿で良いと思うぞ。

どちらかといえば国際的なモデル顔だろ。

自信もって頑張れば良し！

I think she's nice and that she looks exotic. 
She actually looks like an international model.
She should be more confident and work hard!

113： ハイキック(群馬県) 2013/10/28(月) 23:57:31.22 ID:ueczltjv0

だってフィリピンて聞くだけで日本人からまったくモテな父ちゃんがフィリピンパブで引っ掛けて残留目当てで結婚したって丸出しじゃん？

ちがうん？

But when you hear Philippines, all you imagine are the girls working in Philippine pubs who marry these ugly old Japanese guys so they can stay in Japan. 
Am I wrong?

125： ハイキック(茸) 2013/10/29(火) 00:04:33.38 ID:hDxG5vU4P

>>113

少なく見て八割はそれだろうな

At the very least, 80% of people think that way

120： ランサルセ(埼玉県) 2013/10/29(火) 00:03:13.77 ID:OniSfRKA0

フィリピン人って可愛いだろ

元先進国さんやで？

80年ぐらい前は

But Filipinas are cute.
They used to be an advanced nation, you know?
80 years ago.

126： ストマッククロー(東京都) 2013/10/29(火) 00:04:42.87 ID:59ZZh/5J0

フィリピンが先進国だったことなんてねえから

There's no way the Philippines was an industrially advanced nation.

129： ランサルセ(埼玉県) 2013/10/29(火) 00:08:42.57 ID:KxtBV0Sd0

>>126

なうでヤングな国だったんだぞ

ただちょっとばかし占領されてただけで

It used to be a modern and young country.
But when it got occupied...

139： ミッドナイトエクスプレス(関西・北陸) 2013/10/29(火) 00:13:59.49 ID:+rqkt1slO

俺は自分の遺伝子とちょっとでも違う民族と混じりあった方が遺伝子的に優秀・強くなるって話聞いてハーフ大歓迎。

逆に近親相姦とかの、全く同じ遺伝子で交じり合えば合うほど奇形、貧弱化するらしいな。

After hearing that mixing your own genes with entirely different genes from a different race will give birth to stronger and excellent DNAs so I actually welcome the idea of half-breds.

On the other hand, if you mix your genes with a similar gene, like in the case of incest, then I heard that it would be more prone to irregularities and weaknesses.

146： スパイダージャーマン(宮崎県) 2013/10/29(火) 00:16:51.81 ID:jZh5LXBH0

最近の芸能界のハーフ押しがすげぇ気持ち悪い、一時の韓流ゴリ押しと一緒

I'm actually disgusted at how the showbiz world is pushing all these half-bred talents forward, it feels like the time when they pushed for all those Korean talents at one point.

148： 足4の字固め(西日本) 2013/10/29(火) 00:18:27.23 ID:IXsTPMnu0

>>146

わかる、国粋主義者じゃないけど、うざくなってきた

I understand what you mean. I'm not exactly an ultranationalist, but it is getting annoying.

152： アンクルホールド(埼玉県) 2013/10/29(火) 00:22:05.32 ID:iiLsqm8+0

>>146

最近はモデル上がりだけじゃなくてお笑い芸人のハーフが増えてきたな

There also seems to be an increase in halfie comedians, not just the models

153： スターダストプレス(岐阜県) 2013/10/29(火) 00:22:18.78 ID:e12HSycr0

>>146

ハーフがコメントするだけで「おい、ホルホルしていいぞ」みたいな雰囲気が嫌

I hate it how some of these halfies are emitting this aura that seems to say "Go ahead and praise me" whenever they just say something

157： アイアンクロー(SB-iPhone) 2013/10/29(火) 00:23:37.48 ID:NwDygdPci

イメージ悪いからな

不法就労やら売春やら

まあ、フィリピンのイメージが向上するように頑張れ

That's because the Philippines has a relatively bad image,
what with the illegal labor cases and prostitution.
I hope she works hard to lift the image of the Philippines up.

162： フロントネックロック(関西・東海) 2013/10/29(火) 00:26:29.46 ID:i+rYs/FaO

>>157

同意。

悪いイメージはたしかにあるけれど、自分の評価は自分で変えられるから問題なし。
Agreed.
It's true that there's a bad image pinned to the Philippines in general. But you yourself have the ability to change how people see you, so there's no problem at all.

183： ハイキック(アイルランド) 2013/10/29(火) 00:44:00.74 ID:CqmqiWr6P

フィリピン人との結婚って聞いたら、どうせ金とか国籍が目的なんだろうなって思うのは確か

その間に生まれた子供が色眼鏡で見られるのも仕方ないよね

It's true that people will think that the Filipino partner is only after the money or the nationality when they get married. It can't be helped that those children will be looked at with a bias.

184： ダイビングフットスタンプ(埼玉県) 2013/10/29(火) 00:44:52.26 ID:5dej4K5E0

これを見ても秋元才加がブスと言えるの？

Can you still call Sayaka Akimoto ugly after seeing these pictures?

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202： タイガースープレックス(福岡県) 2013/10/29(火) 01:01:32.83 ID:IzVh50HK0

>>184

画像1番下はTOKIOの長瀬だろ。

The bottom-most picture, that's TOKIO's Nagase, right?

197： フェイスクラッシャー(WiMAX) 2013/10/29(火) 00:57:40.79 ID:MNyqKLFe0

日本人がフィリピン人を叩く理由なんて何も無いだろ

There's no reason whatsoever for the Japanese to hate on and bash Filipinos

199： イス攻撃(大阪府) 2013/10/29(火) 01:00:31.05 ID:T97jzwIw0

顔はいまいちだけど体はエ口いから嫌いじゃないよ

Her face is a bit off but she's got a hot body so I don't dislike her

231： ファイナルカット(千葉県) 2013/10/29(火) 01:34:03.22 ID:EvYGB0Ra0

そういう差別があるね特に芸能界で

欧米系のハーフと違って隠すからね（事務所の方針で隠させられるのだろう）

よくないよ

That kind of discrimination really exists, especially in the showbiz industry.
Some talents have to hide it, unlike the half-Europeans or Americans (must be their agency's policy).

That isn't good.

232： フロントネックロック(新疆ウイグル自治区) 2013/10/29(火) 01:35:24.89 ID:HtLspaPn0

一般的なフィリピン美女

Regular Filipina beauties

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261： アンクルホールド(チベット自治区) 2013/10/29(火) 02:16:57.12 ID:8Nv/Iy3m0

>>232

ちょっとフィリピンに行ってくる

I'm off to the Philippines for a while

237： サソリ固め(やわらか銀行) 2013/10/29(火) 01:42:04.16 ID:VScDTV2I0

フィリピンつってもスペイン系は美男美女だよ

Even if you say Philippines, they're mostly the beautiful descendants of the Spanish

294： バーニングハンマー(新疆ウイグル自治区) 2013/10/29(火) 03:50:19.24 ID:e29flX/D0

フィリピン人って元はスペイン人だろ？

人種的には完全に日本人より格上なのになんで見下してんの

But aren't Filipinos mostly of Spanish descent? Then as a race, they're entirely higher than Japan. Why do people look down on them?

304： アンクルホールド(埼玉県) 2013/10/29(火) 04:08:41.97 ID:nZo/chUX0

>>294

売春のイメージあるからじゃないの？

別に見下してる記事じゃないけど、本人が恥ずかしいなら仕方ない

Maybe because of the image of prostitution attached.
The article in itself isn't looking down on them, but it can't be helped if she herself is ashamed of that.

305： デンジャラスバックドロップ(家) 2013/10/29(火) 04:09:19.63 ID:5DgoM0X50

母親はスペイン系フィリピン人な

Her mother's a Hispanic Filipina, got it?

187： 目潰し(dion軍) 2013/10/29(火) 00:47:46.87 ID:mtZm6sZy0

海外出張でフィリピンに2年滞在してたけどフィリピン人て結構人懐っこくて明るいから好き。男も女も。

I stayed in the Philippines for 2 years because of work, but the people there are really friendly and cheerful, I like them all. Both men and women.

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