Iroha Hokazono

Iroha was born on February 4, 2008, in Machida, Tokyo, and works as a singer; the official accounts listed for her are those of ILLIT, the Korea-based girl group she performs with as its Japanese member. Start with the birth year. Someone born in 2008 was in the early-to-mid teens at debut — which means the training years happened during what for most people is middle school. Leaving Machida, moving into a Korean trainee system, learning to perform in a second language, and surviving the selection process to actually debut is an enormous amount of childhood spent on a single bet. I have complicated feelings about how young that industry starts people, and I don't think admiration and unease have to cancel each other out. She was scouted at eleven, trained first at JYP Entertainment and then for about three years at HYBE, and won a debut spot on the 2023 audition show R U Next?. Her career is a couple of years old. The interesting part hasn't happened yet.

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Name (English)

Iroha Hokazono

Name (Japanese)

外薗彩羽

Reading

ほかぞの いろは

Born

February 4, 2008 (age 18)

Origin

Machida, Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Blood type

A

Agency

BELIFT LAB

Debut

2024-3-25

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/illit_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/ILLIT_twt
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E8%96%97%E5%BD%A9%E7%BE%BD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126923761

Tags

• Tokyo
• singer

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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