Yahoo! JP has announced Japan’s most popular keywords on their search engine in the first half of 2011. It comes with no surprise that Japanese folks were searching for AKB48 & Arashi, the two idol groups whom had also dominated the sales ranking charts.
Celebrity Search Ranking
- AKB48
- Arashi
- Maeda Atsuko (AKB48)
- Shoujo Jidai
- KARA
- Itano Tomomi (AKB48)
- Oshima Yuko (AKB48)
- Shinoda Mariko (AKB48)
- EXILE
- Tohoshinki
In addition to the celebrity search ranking, AKB48 were also listed as #10 in the overall search ranking, and their dorama series Majisuka Gakuen was #2 in the TV series search ranking as well.
Source: Oricon
