Reina Yokoyama, then 15 of Saitama and Kaede Kaga who was then 17, of Tokyo when they joined as part of the 13th generation in 2016. This news was made public in 2016 and I have decided to make the focus of this post about one of these two members. That member is Reina Yokoyama. A native of Saitama, Japan, Yokoyama was born on February 22, 2001. It is time for me to introduce one of the newest members of the group formerly known as Morning Musume. Note: I will not be including every single career and life detail of Yokoyama. Think of this post as an introduction to her.
The audition for the 13th generation actually started back in January 2016. Initially, no one was chosen. But the auditions were resumed back in June 2016 and Yokoyama and Kaga were chosen. These two girls were chosen from Hello! Project Kenshuusei. This is the training program that these girls are a part of before they audition to become members.
After joining Morning Musume, Yokoyama took part in a special fan club event called Morning Musume ’17 13ki Member FC Event with fellow member Kaede Kaga.
On March 2, 2017, she along with Kaga began a web talk show that was exclusively available to fan club members called Reversible Radio. That radio show would end in August 2019 with 122 episodes. At the end of that year in December 2018, she took over as a regular member on the radio show called Young Town Doyoubi. She took over for Haruka Kudo after Kudo graduated from the group. In 2018, she released her first solo photo book called THIS IS REINA. She would follow up that release with the release of her first solo image Blu-ray called First Reina Yokoyama. 2018 would become quite interesting for her as she was one of 8 Morning Musume OG and Hello! Project members that were chosen for Host City Special Supporters for Kumagaya during the Rugby World Cup 2019 event hosted by Japan. On October 15, 2018, former member of girl group Berryz Kobo Yurina Kumai along with the other shortest members in Hello! Project released a photo book called Complex ni Sayounara. The other shortest members besides Yokoyama are Morito Chisaki, Moe Kamikokuryo and Musubu Funaki. These girls have been named as Minis? This is a unit that basically has the four shortest members of Hello! Project.
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Interesting Facts and Trivia About Reina Yokoyama
- Her hobbies include listening to music, dancing, and singing.
- She plays the saxophone.
- She likes to eat spring rolls.
- She enjoys dance and soccer.
- Her motto or most inspirational quote is “Time is important.”
- Her role models are Sayumi Michishige, Ayaka Hirose and Sakura Oda.
- She says that if she did not become a pop music idol that she would have wanted to become a school teacher and specifically a history teacher. This is because of her love of history and a desire to share with the students how interesting it is.
Yokoyama then went on to release her second solo photo book called Reina is Eighteen ~ N to S~ on August 27, 2019.
On July 12, 2020, Yokoyama Reina opened up an account on Instagram. It was announced on October 13, 2021 that she had been appointed as a support ambassador for the Urawa Reds Ladies which is a professional women’s soccer team in the WE League.
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