Few idols have crossed the Japan-Korea divide as often as Hitomi Honda. Born in Tochigi Prefecture in 2001, she joined AKB48's Team 8 at age 12 in 2014 as her prefecture's representative, later working as a local TV reporter and radio host. Her breakthrough came in 2018 on the survival show Produce 48, where a ninth-place finish earned her a spot in the Korean-Japanese group IzOne, debuting that O…
