# Haruka Shimada

Haruka Shimada (島田 晴香, Shimada Haruka, born 16 December 1992) is a Japanese businessperson and former singer and actress. She is a former member of AKB48, and has founded two companies aiming to provide second career options for aspiring and active entertainers.

## Biography

Shimada joined AKB48 in 2009. During her time with the group, she had served as the vice-captain of Team K. In April 2017, Shimada announced that she would graduate from the group in September 2017 and retire from the entertainment industry. Her graduation live concert was held on November 13, and she released her photo book the same month. She posted her farewell message on her official Twitter and Instagram accounts on December 31, 2017 and stated that she will only maintain her Instagram account going forward.
In 2018, Shimada moved to London and lived there for about a year to learn English. She worked at an advertising agency after returning to Japan, and went on to establish the company Dct Inc. in May 2021. Drawing from her own experiences, the company offers courses to prepare Japanese idols for the general workforce should they decide to retire from the entertainment industry, considering that they often start out while in school and have little or no work experience outside the industry such as part-time work, although they might have an advantage in communication skills. Former AKB48 members have enrolled in the courses, three of whom found employment in January 2022. She later established a second company named Clover Academy, which offers a combined course of performing arts training and child care qualification for high school graduates who aspire to enter show business, similarly to provide an option for a second career should they later retire.
Shimada also helps manage her family's ryokan, Tachibana, in her hometown of Atami. After the 2021 Atami landslide, she launched a crowdfunding project for reconstruction of the affected areas, which managed to collect 3,331,000 yen.

## Personal life

On November 22, 2023, Shimada announced her marriage to a general businessman. On May 12, 2024, she gave birth to her first child.

## AKB48 participation
### Singles

| Single | Song | Member of |
| "Ponytail to Shushu" | "Boku no Yell" | Theater Girls |
| "Chance no Junban" | "Fruits Snow" | Team Kenkyūsei |
| "Sakura no Ki ni Narō" | "Kogane Center" | Team Kenkyūsei |
| "Everyday, Katyusha" | "Yankee Soul" | |
| "Everyday, Katyusha" | "Anti" | Team Kenkyūsei |
| "Flying Get" | "Seishun to Kizukanai mama" | |
| "Kaze wa Fuiteiru" | "Vamos" | Under Girls Bara-gumi |
| "Kaze wa Fuiteiru" | "Tsubomi-tachi" | Team 4+Kenkyūsei |
| "Ue kara Mariko" | "Hashire! Penguin" | Team 4 |
| "Give Me Five!" | "Hitsujikai no Tabi" | Special Girls B |
| "Manatsu no Sounds Good!" | | |
| "Gingham Check" | "Ano Ni no Fūrin" | Waiting Girls |
| "Uza" | "Scrap & Build" | Team K |
| "Eien Pressure" | "Watashitachi no Reason" | |
| "So Long!" | "Waiting room" | Under Girls |
| "So Long!" | "Yūhi Mary" | Oshima Team K |
| "Sayonara Crawl" | "How come?" | Team K |
| "Heart Electric" | "Sasameyuki Regret" | Team K |
| "Mae shika Mukanee" | "Konjo" | Talking Chimpanzees |
| "Labrador Retriever" | "Itoshiki Rival" | Team K |
| "Kibōteki Refrain" | "Hajimete no Drive" | Team K |
| "Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby" | "Onēsan no Hitorigoto" | Team K |
| "Tsubasa wa Iranai" | "Aishū no Trumpeter" | Team K |
| "High Tension" | "Better" | |

### Albums

| Year | Title | Member of |
| Koko ni Ita Koto | "High school days" | Team Kenkyūsei |
| Koko ni Ita Koto | "Koko ni Ita Koto" | AKB48+SKE48+SDN48+NMB48 |
| 1830m | "Chokkaku Sunshine" | Team 4 |
| 1830m | "Aozora yo: Sabishikunai ka?" | AKB48+SKE48+NMB48+HKT48 |
| Tsugi no Ashiato | "Ponkotsu Bruce" | |
| Tsugi no Ashiato | "Kyōhan-sha" | Team K |
| Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe! | "Conveyor" | Yokoyama Team K |
| 0 to 1 no Aida | "Ai no Shisha" | Team K |

### Other songs

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 2011 | "Hatsukoi wa Minoranai" | Member of Ojarumaru Sisters |

### Stage units

| Title | Song | Notes |
| Kenkyūsei: Idol no Yoake | "Itoshiki Natasha" | |
| Kenkyūsei: Renai Kinshi Jōrei | "Heart Gata Virus" | |
| Kenkyūsei: Theater no Megami | "Arashi no Yoru ni wa" | |
| Kenkyūsei: Theater no Megami | "Candy" | |
| Team B 5th Stage: Theater no Megami | "Romance kakurenbo" | Zenza Girl |
| Team B 5th Stage: Theater no Megami | "Arashi no Yoru ni wa" | Under Miho Miyazaki |
| Team B 5th Stage: Theater no Megami | "Candy" | Under Tomomi Kasai |
| Team B 5th Stage: Theater no Megami | "Locker Room Boy" | Under Rie Kitahara |
| Team A 6th Stage: Mokugeki-sha | "Miniskirt no Yōsei" | Zensa Girls |
| Team A 6th Stage: Mokugeki-sha | "Enjō Rosen" | Under Aki Takajo |
| Team K 6th Stage: Reset | "Remon no Toshigoro" | Zensa Girls |
| Team K 6th Stage: Reset | "Seifuku Resistance" | Under Tomomi Itano |
| Team 4 1st Stage: Boku no Taiyō | "Boku to Juliet to Jet Coaster" | |
| Himawari-gumi 1st Stage: Boku no Taiyō | "Himawari" | |
| Team S 2nd Stage: Te o tsunaginagara | "Glory days" | |
| Team K 5th Stage: Gyaku Agari | "End Roll" | |
| Team K Waiting Kōen II: Saishū Bell Ganaru | "Return Match" | |
| Team K 7th Stage: Reset | "Ashita no tame ni Kiss o" | |
| Team K 7th Stage: Reset | "Kiseki wa Maniawanai" | Unit under Haruka Kodama |
| Masahiro Tanaka: Boku ga koko ni iru Riyū | "Seishun no Ki More Yō" | No3b "Kimi shika" track song, Minami Takahashi or Haruna Kojima's position |
| Team K 8th Stage: Saishū Bell Ganaru | "Gomen ne: Jewel" | |
| Team K 8th Stage: Saishū Bell Ganaru | "22-Ri Shimai no Uta" | Unit under Minami Minegishi, Aki Takajo, Mariya Suzuki |
| Team K 8th Stage: Saishū Bell Ganaru | "Return Match" | Unit under Shinobu Motegi |
| Revial Kōen: Boku no Taiyō | "Himawari" | Mariya Suzuki, Mihimo Nishino's standby |
| Team 4 4th Stage: Yume o Shina seru wake ni ikanai | "Kioku no Dilemma" | Under Rina Izuta |

## Filmography
### TV dramas

| Year | Title | Role | Network | Notes |
| 2010 | Majisuka Gakuen | Majisuka Gakuen student | TV Tokyo | Final Episode |
| 2011 | Majisuka Gakuen 2 | Docchi | TV Tokyo | |
| 2012 | Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou | Anne Miyata | NTV | |
| 2012 | Majisuka Gakuen 3 | Uruseeyo | TV Tokyo | |
| 2013 | So long! | | NTV | Episode 3 |
| 2015 | Majisuka Gakuen 4 | Shimada | NTV | Episode 10 |
| 2017 | Tōfu Pro-Wres | Yuko Shimada | TV Asahi | |

### Variety

| Year | Title | Network | Notes |
| 2010 | Ariyoshi AKB Kyōwakoku | TBS | Irregular appearances |
| 2010 | Shūkan AKB | TV Tokyo | Occasional appearances |
| 2010 | AKBingo! | NTV | Irregular appearances |
| 2010 | AKB48 Neshin TV | Family Gekijo | |
| 2011 | AKB48 Conte: Bimyō | Hikari TV Channel | |
| 2012 | AKB48 no anta, Dare? | NotTV | Irregular appearances |
| 2012 | Bimyō na Tobira AKB48 no Gachichare | Hikari TV Channel | |
| 2012 | AKB Ko Usagi Dōjō | TV Tokyo | Occasional appearances |
| 2013 | HaKaTa Hyakkaten 2-gōkan | NTV | |
| 2013 | AKB Kanko-Taishi | Fuji TV One | |
| 2013 | AKB48 Conte: Nani mo soko made... | Hikari TV Channel | Irregular appearances |
| 2014 | Renai Sō Senkyo | Fuji TV | |
| 2014 | Tentoumu Chu! No Sekai o Muchū ni sa semasu Sengen! | NTV | |
| 2014 | SKE48 Ebi Calcio! | NTV | |
| 2014 | AKB Shirabe | NTV | |
| 2015 | Bokura ga Kangaeru Yoru | Fuji TV | Irregular appearances |
| 2015 | AKB48 Tabi Shōjo | NTV | |
| 2015 | AKB48 no Konya wa o Tomari' | NTV | |
| 2015 | Sashihara Kaiwaizu | Fuji TV | |

### Other TV programmes (mainly tennis related)

| Year | Title | Network |
| 2015 | Sunday Sports | NHK-G |
| 2015 | Kei Nishikori: Chōten no Chōsen ATP Tennis Tour Final Chokuzen Tokushū | NHK BS1 |
| 2015 | The Nonfiction (documentary) | Fuji TV |

### Stage

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
| 2016 | Kenran toka Ranman toka | Sue Kobayashi | | |

### Radio

| Year | Title | Network | Notes |
| 2011 | AKB48 Konya wa Kaeranai... | CBC Radio | Irregular appearances |
| 2011 | Kakedase! | NHK Radio 1, NHK World Radio Japan | |
| 2012 | AKB48 no All Night Nippon | NBS | Irregular appearances |
| 2013 | Listen? Live 4 Life | NCB | Irregular appearances |

### Films

| Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
| 2012 | Ultraman Saga | Hina Hamamatsu | |

### Events

| Year | Title |
| 2012 | Haruka Shimada no Mike 1-Pon Shōbu!! Urusakattara Gomennasai |
| 2012 | 87th Nikke All Japan Tennis Championships ceremonial first pitch |

### Internet

| Year | Title | Role | Website | Notes |
| 2015 | Majisuka Gakuen 5 | Unnamed student | Hulu | Episode 9 |
| 2015 | AKB48 Team 8!! 2015 Natsu: Zenkoku Jūdan! Shimada-Nakamura-Nakanishi no Team 88 Latch!! | | LoGirl | |