Nearly two years ago, a single photograph of a young wannabe idol appeared online. It ignited a fire among idol otaku so large that it reached the mainstream press in Japan in the same day. The ...

Kanna Hashimoto, known as 'the millennium idol,' is reported to be living with Taishi Nakagawa. Although the two were entangled in breakup rumors two months ago, it is actually known that they are ...

I have been asked by Nippon.com to write about Hashimoto Kanna, a 15-year-old sensation who has been described as a “once-in-a-millennium idol,” and the somewhat surprising phenomenon of older ...