Yuko Oshima talks about her graduation on her blog

1: 三毛猫φ ★ 2014/01/04(土) 14:07:38.34 ID:???0

Yuko Oshima (25) has updated her blog on the 4th and talked about her reasons for graduating from AKB48 and for announcing it at the Kouhaku. 

This is Oshima's first update in the new year. Along with her new year's message to her fans, she also proceeded to apologize by saying, "I think I surprised everyone after suddenly announcing my graduation at the very end of the year 2013."

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Source: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20140104-00000072-spnannex-ent

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NHK's public relations comments on Yuko Oshima's graduation announcement

1： 三毛猫φ ★ 2014/01/01(水) 00:26:02.54 ID:???0

NHK's public relations gave their comments about Yuko Oshima's announcement of her graduation from AKB48 at the live broadcast of the 64th Kouhaku Uta Gassen on the 31st.

NHK's public relations representative looked surprised and commented, "We at NHK were not informed about this", after AKB48's performance when a reporter asked for comments.

Yuko Oshima suddenly announced her graduation from AKB48 in between songs of their medley.
"This will be my last time performing at the Kouhaku Uta Gassen like this", as they performed AKB's trademark song "Heavy Rotation" with Oshima as the center. Minami Takahashi and Rino Sashihara were in tears during the performance, but Oshima kept smiling throughout the performance. She did seem to have watery eyes during the final pose of the song.

Source: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20131231-00000015-modelpn-ent

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