AKB48 has announced that they will be holding the 'AKB48 34th Single Senbatsu Janken Tournament' on September 18th at Nippon Budokan.�
This surprise announcement was made during the group's handshake event for their 31st single, "Sayonara Crawl", at Kyocera Dome Osaka. Previous winners are�Uchida Mayumi�in 2010, Shinoda Mariko in�2011, and Shimazaki Haruka�in 2012, and they have claimed the center position for the group's singles "Chance no Junban", "Ue Kara Mariko", and "Eien Pressure" respectively.�
Those participating in the upcoming tournament are formal members of AKB48, 2 AKB48 research students, 8 preliminary round winners from SKE48, 8 preliminary round winners from NMB48, and 3 preliminary round winners from HKT48. Up to 2 research students are allowed to participate in the preliminary tournament for SKE48, NMB48, and HKT48.�
More details on the preliminary tournaments and the single will be announced later.
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