Haruka Kodama

For a stretch in the mid-2010s, Haruka Kodama was the face of HKT48. She fronted three of the group's singles — "Hikaeme I Love You!", "12 Byō" (shared with Sakura Miyawaki), and "Shekarashika!" — which is about as clear a statement of who the group's center was as the industry ever makes. She was also, crucially, from Fukuoka, which mattered for a group built on regional identity. What interests me more is the part that came after. Idol careers are usually narrated as a rise and then a graduation, as if the second half were an epilogue. Hers has been more complicated than that: she stepped back from activity for health reasons, returned, eventually left the group, and has been rebuilding as a performer on her own terms since. Carrying a franchise in your late teens and then having to figure out who you are without it is genuinely hard work. Born in 1996, she has plenty of runway. The second act is the one I would watch.

Name (English)

Haruka Kodama

Name (Japanese)

兒玉遥

Reading

こだま はるか

Born

September 19, 1996 (age 29)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rat

Origin

Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Height

158 cm

Occupation

singer / gravure idol

• Official sitehttps://kodama-haruka.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/haruka_kodama919/
• Xhttps://x.com/haruka_kdm919
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruka%20Kodama
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%92%E7%8E%89%E9%81%A5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q898511

Tags

• Fukuoka Prefecture
• singer
• gravure idol

Last updated

2026-08-07

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.