Yōko Shōgenji

is a Japanese singer and media personality. She is a member of the girl group Hinatazaka46.

Shōgenji joined Hinatazaka46 in 2022 and has served as the lead performer for the singles "Kimi wa Honeydew" (2024) and "Zettaiteki Dairokkan" (2024). She has also been a co-host for the NHK High School Courses educational show and starred in the feature film All of Tokyo! (2024). She has been the regular Thursday host of the All Night Nippon X radio program since April 2026.

Early life Shōgenji hails from Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, and has an older sister. All her family members play musical instruments. She practiced karate regularly until middle school and holds a brown belt. Her surname has been noted for its rarity, with only around 50 individuals in Japan sharing it.

Career Shōgenji joined Hinatazaka46 in late 2022 as a fourth generation member and was the second youngest among the twelve new members at age 15. She was inspired to take the audition for the group after her cousin Mao Ioki joined Nogizaka46 earlier that year. Her introduction documentary video was published on October 14, 2022, on the group's official YouTube channel. She plays the Western flute and guitar and has performed on both instruments in Hinatazaka46 concerts.

From 2023 to 2024, Shōgenji was a co-host for the "Informatics I" subject (a compulsory Japanese high school subject since 2022 ) of NHK Educational TV's educational show. As an anime enthusiast, she co-hosts Hinatazaka Anime Club, a variety show about learning anime production broadcast irregularly on Kansai TV since 2023, and became an ambassador for the 2026 anime adaptation of Snowball Earth.

Shōgenji became a song center (lead performer) for the first time for the fourth generation's song "Coelacanth", released on the 2023 single "One Choice". She made her live music program debut on TV Asahi's Christmas special edition of Music Station, Super Live 2023, as the substitute center for the group's live performance of "One Choice".

Shōgenji, along with Nao Kosaka and Miku Kanemura, was a subject for the Triangle Magazine 02 photo collection, or "visual magazine", published by Kodansha on January 23, 2024. Among the three models, she represented the theme of "youth". It placed first on both the Oricon Weekly Book and Photobook charts of its release week with 61 thousand copies sold.

Shōgenji was the center of Hinatazaka46's 11th single, "Kimi wa Honeydew", released on May 8, 2024, and is the first fourth generation member to be a title song center. She was again announced as center for the 12th single, "Zettaiteki Dairokkan", along with fellow fourth generation member Kaho Fujishima, making both of them the first double centers of a Hinatazaka46 title song.

Shōgenji and Fujishima, fourth generation members of the same age, have been described as two of the group's emerging "leading figures" and are frequently paired together as the duo "Shogekaho". They co-starred in the 2024 web commercial series Ice de Breakers for Morinaga & Company's Ice Box brand, and in 2025 in a television commercial series for , where they portrayed three sisters with series regular Nao Kosaka. She also starred in the music video of its theme song, "Kyūkōken to Rhythm" by Conton Candy.

Shōgenji joined the long-running All Night Nippon radio franchise as the regular Thursday host for All Night Nippon X (Cross) in April 2026, taking over from former fellow Hinatazaka46 member Konoka Matsuda. She had previously served as a special host for an August 2025 broadcast of All Night Nippon 0 (Zero). Writing for Bubka, entertainment writer Shin remarked on her adaptability and contrasted Matsuda's well-structured broadcasts to her "forceful" and "passionate" style, and later compared her to an unpredictable "fantasista" football player.

Shōgenji has been announced as the title song center for the third time for Hinatazaka46's 18th single, "Ichaicha Mushi", to be released on September 30.

Discography The following are Shōgenji's notable participation in Hinatazaka46's discography.

"Blueberry & Raspberry" (2022, released with "Tsuki to Hoshi ga Odoru Midnight"), debut song "Coelacanth" (2023, released on "One Choice"), first time as center "Icha Icha Mushi" (2026), title song center

Collaboration

by BocchiBoromaru, The Elusive Samurai 2nd ending song (2026), featured artist with Nao Kosaka and Kaho Fujishima

Filmography

Film

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