Iwatate Saho

Name

Iwatate Saho

Iwatate Saho (2019)


Kanji	岩立沙穂
Kana	いわたてさほ
Romaji	Iwatate Saho
Nickname	Sahhoo (さっほー)

Birth Info

Birthdate	October 4, 1994
Birthplace	Kanagawa, Japan
Blood type	B
Current Age	30 Years Old

Sizes

Height	156.5cm

Professional Info

Agency	DH
Social Networks	7gogo / Ameblo / Instagram / SHOWROOM / Twitter / Weibo

Idol Career Info

Group	AKB48
Team	Team B
Debuted	September 2011 / 13th Generation

Iwatate Saho is the captain of AKB48's Team B. She is also a member of Honey Harmony.

1 Catchphrase
2 Trivia
3 History
- 3.1 2010
- 3.2 2011
- 3.3 2012
- 3.4 2013
- 3.5 2014
- 3.6 2015
- 3.7 2016
- 3.8 2017
- 3.9 2018
- 3.10 2019
- 3.11 2021
- 3.12 2022
4 AKB48 Senbatsu Elections
5 AKB48 Janken Tournaments
6 Team History
7 Singles Participation
- 7.1 AKB48 B-Sides
- 7.2 Other Singles
8 Albums Participation
- 8.1 AKB48 Albums
9 Units
- 9.1 Stage Units
- 9.2 Concert Units
10 Media Appearances
11 Gallery

Catchphrase

発声練習はじめます！　やっほー、さっほー、30歳、さっほーこと岩立沙穂です。

Hassei renshuu hajimemasu! Yahhoo, Sahhoo, 30-sai, Sahhoo koto Iwatate Saho desu.

(I'll start with vocal exercises! Yahhoo, Sahhoo, I'm Iwatate Saho, also known as Sahhoo, 30 years old.)

Trivia

Hobbies: Aromatherapy, photography
Favorite subject: World history, Japanese language. She says Japanese is her specialty.
Likes: Spicy food, eating grasshoppers
Favorite animal: Capybara
Good friends with: Mogi Shinobu, Muto Tomu
- She was the first person to bathe with Mogi.
Admired members: Kashiwagi Yuki
Future ambition: A multi-talent who can work as a reporter
Oldest member in AKB48 13th Generation
She failed AKB48's 11th and 12th Generation Auditions.
She has a younger brother
She has liked idols since she was six years old. In middle school she particularly liked Morning Musume.
She was high school classmates with Nogizaka46's Nakada Kana.
She enrolled in a junior college in 2013, and graduated in 2015.
She considers herself a calm and considerable person, but also indecisive. Staff members have praised her for being hardworking and gutsy, while former member Nakamura Mariko said she has a classic idol aura, reminiscent of Matsuda Seiko.
She has a burikko ("cutesy girl") character.
She is famous for regularly eating grasshoppers, as her family has eaten them for a long time. When she took her college entrance exam, her mother packed her a bento and spelled "Ganba" (good luck) in grasshoppers on top of the rice.
- Her unflinching love of grasshoppers was featured in AKBINGO! as well. A Muchaburi Dodgeball segment called "Sahhoo Gohan" was created, where Saho would prepare foods with grasshoppers to feed to members as a punishment for getting out in the dodgeball game.
She likes France and has been studying French for several years.
She has passed many qualification tests, such as a Level 3 qualification in French, a Grade 1 qualification in aromatherapy, Kanji Kentei Level 2, Eating Habits Advisor Grade 3, and Cosmetics Certification Grade 2.
She can recite the first 50 digits of pi.
She once posted support messages through Google+ to a fan that was thinking about committing suicide.
In August 2018 she ranked first in the AKB48 Stage Fighter game "Final Center Battle".

History

2010

Auditioned for AKB48's 11th Generation, but failed.

2011

On September 24th, passed the auditions for 13th Generation.
On December 8th, during the 6th Year Anniversary Commemorative Performance, had her theater debut with the other members of the 13th Generation for Aitakatta.

2012

On August 5th, passed 6th Kenkyuusei Selection.

2013

In April, passed the center examination for university.
On August 24th, on the third day of the Tokyo concert for the AKB48 5 Big Dome Concert Tour, was promoted to Minegishi Team 4.
On November 3rd, was a shonichi member for Te wo Tsunaginagara.

2014

On February 24th, during the AKB48 Group Daisokaku Matsuri, it was announced she would stay with Minegishi Team 4.
On April 15th, was a senshuuraku member of Te wo Tsunaginagara.
On April 24th, was a shonichi member of Idol no Yoake.
On June 7th, during the 6th Senbatsu Election, placed for the first time at 66th place.

2015

On March 20th, graduated from junior college.
On March 26th, during the AKB48 Spring Shuffle 2015, it was announced she would stay with Takahashi Team 4.
On August 24th, was a senshuuraku member of Idol no Yoake.
On September 17th, was the seventh member to be announced for Seishun wa made owaranai.
On October 13th, appeared in AKB Horror Night Adrenaline no Yoru.
On December 3rd, was a shonichi member for Yume wo Shinaseru Wake ni Ikanai.

2016

On June 18th, during the 8th Senbatsu Election, ranked back in at 51st after not placing at all the year prior.

2017

On December 8th, during the AKB48 12th Anniversary Shuffle, was moved to Takahashi Team B.

2018

On June 15th, was announced as a contestant on the Korean idol survival show Produce 48.
- Ranked in Class B after the initial evaluation.
- Ranked in Class B after the re-evaluation.
- Performed AKB48's High Tension during the first performance round. Her position was center. Her team lost.
- Performed BTS' "The Truth Untold" during the second performance round. She placed third within her team.
- Was elimited in Episode 8 at 40th place with a total of 288,890 votes.

2019

On January 19, had a joint leading role together with Sugawara Maya in the horror movie "Horror Channel".
On May 2nd, during Takahashi Juri's graduation stage, was named the new captain of Team B (Iwatate Team B).

2021

In the January issue of the magazine BIG ONE GIRLS, was featured in an interview alongside the AKB48 Soukantoku and other captains (Mukaichi Mion, Okabe Rin, Komiyama Haruka, Murayama Yuiri).
On December 8th, at the AKB48 16th Anniversary Team Shuffle, was moved to Mukaichi Team A.