Chris Lane comments

Selfie sticks should be banned everywhere

It's sad that another passenger was killed and people were injured by the smoke, however things could have been MUCH worse,and it is a good wake up call for them to create better security and operational measures.

The comments here are pretty ridiculous, with a lot of mis-information. MANY AKB48 members are in their late teens/early 20's and a vast majority of the time are not doing slutty or sexy things. The girls themselves are very hard working and fully dedicated to their profession. A lot of their songs have good, uplifting lyrics. Having said that, their producer has tried to push the idea and the amount of girls to the limit...its basically a franchise, and it is getting way too big. If they do have a part of the olympics, I hope its just a small montage with a lot of other music groups.