As pop star misdemeanours go, Minami Minegishi's was tame in the
extreme – breaking her group's strict dating ban to spend a night with
her boyfriend.
Yet hours after a magazine published photographs of her leaving his
home last month, Minegishi, a member of the wildly popular girl band
AKB48, went on to YouTube to issue a tearful apology. She had shaved her
head, a traditional act of contrition inJapan, but perhaps a step too
far for a 20-year-old woman whose "crime" was to have found herself a
boyfriend – 19-year-old Alan Shirahama, a dancer in a boyband.
Minegishi explained she had decided to cut off her long hair
immediately after seeing her photograph, her face hidden behind a
surgical mask and a baseball cap, in the weekly tabloid Shukan Bunshun
on Thursday
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