Natsuki Uchiyama
She is a former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48, where she was part of Team B. Uchiyama passed AKB48's 14th generation auditions on 13 May 2012.In July 2014, she collaborated with Shigeru Minamino [ja], then an associate professor at Kyushu University School of Law, to write a book titled Constitutionalism: The Essence Unwritten in the Text (憲法主義: 条文には書かれていない本質, Kenpō shugi: jōbun ni wa kaka rete inai honshitsu) regarding the Japanese Constitution.[3] They co-wrote the book with the hope that Japanese teenagers would get a basic grounding and become interested in constitutional discourse, since although the voting age in Japan has been lowered to 18 years old, education on the matter was considered lacking.[6] From January to March 2018, she was a participant in Parliament Member GO (議員ＧＯ, Giin Go), a political variety show inspired by Pokémon Go, which was broadcast on the Internet television channel AbemaNews [ja].[8] In 2020, her team won the Grand Prix in the Brain Online Video Award competition.