Biography
In 1996, Oshima was signed as a child actor, with Central Kodomo Gekidan. In 2005, she began working as a junior idol in the short lived idol project Doll's Vox, produced by The Alfee vocalist Toshihiko Takamizawa. In 2006, at the AKB48's second audition to form Team K, Oshima was selected as one of 17 successful applicants, out of a pool of 12,000 applications. In April, she began working full-time with the group, and featured on the group's first single with DefStar Records, "Aitakatta", in October 2006.
On August 24, 2012, on the first day of the long-awaited Tokyo Dome 3-concert series, a big AKB48 teams' rearrangement was announced. As part of it, Yuko Oshima is being appointed the captain of Team K.
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