is a Japanese actress and former idol. She is a former member of the

Japanese idol An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements b ...

girl group A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of who ...

NMB48 NMB48 (read "N.M.B. Forty-eight") is a Japanese idol group that debuted in 2011 as the second sister group to AKB48, produced by Yasushi Akimoto. NMB48 is named after the Namba district in Osaka city of Osaka Prefecture, where the group is base ...

as part of Team N.

Biography

Kato passed

's 3rd generation auditions in December 2011. Her debut was on February 18, 2012. In October 2012, she was selected to Team BII. In February 2014, during

AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (''Akiba'' for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, wanted to form a girl group with it ...

's Group Shuffle, Kato was transferred to Team N. In June 2015, at the AKB48 41st Senbatsu Sousenkyo, Kato ranked for the first time at #59, putting her into Future Girls In October 2016, during

’s 6th Anniversary Live, Kato was transferred to Team M, becoming the first NMB48 member to have been into three teams. She began her activities with Team M (along with Teams N and BII) in January 2017. In AKB48’s 49th Single Senbatsu Sousenkyo held in June 18th 2017, Kato ranked 33rd Place and became center of Next Girls. In AKB48’s 53rd Sekai Senbatsu Sousenkyo held in June 2018, Kato ranked 86th, placing her into The 10th AKB48 World Senbatsu Sousenkyo Kinen Waku. On the same year, she joined the South Korean girl group idol survival show

Produce 48 ''Produce 48'' () was the third season of the South Korean reality competition series ''Produce 101''. It was a large-scale project in which the public "produces" a girl group by voting for members out of a pool of 96 contestants from South Kor ...

, a collaboration between the Mnet series Produce 101 and the J-pop idol girl group AKB48, where she was eliminated at episode 5 after finishing at 74th place. In NMB48 Daisokaku 2019, Kato was transferred back to Team BII. In 2021, Kato was transferred from Team BII to Promoted Members when teams were disbanded. One year later (2022), NMB48 reformed teams and Kato was appointed member of Team N. On May 2, 2023, Kato announced her graduation from NMB48, as well as her intent to pursue an acting career. She officially graduated from NMB48 on August 1, 2023.

Discography

NMB48 singles

AKB48 singles

Appearances

Stage Units

;''NMB48 Kenkyuusei Stage "Aitakatta"'' # "Nageki no Figure" # "Nagisa no CHERRY" # "Senaka Kara Dakishimete" # "Rio no Kakumei" ;''Team BII 1st Stage "Aitakatta"'' # "Nageki no Figure" # "Koi no PLAN" # "Senaka Kara Dakishimete" # "Rio no Kakumei" ;''Team BII 2nd Stage "Tadaima Renaichuu"'' # "Faint" ;''Team N 3rd Stage "Koko ni Datte Tenshi wa Iru" (Revival)'' # "Nando mo Nerae!" # "Hajimete no Hoshi" # "100nen Saki Demo"

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kato, Yuuka 1997 births Living people Japanese idols Japanese women pop singers Singers from Osaka Prefecture NMB48 members Produce 48 contestants 21st-century Japanese women singers 21st-century Japanese singers