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), "Zettaiteki Dairokkan" (2024), and "Ichaicha Mushi" (2026). 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. She grew up "surrounded by music" with several family members who played musical instruments, and started practicing the piano from age three and the flute in her middle school's brass band club. She had always been interested in working in music and performance, although not specifically as an idol. 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 and 2026 in a television commercial series for , where they portrayed three sisters with series regular Nao Kosaka.
Shōgenji made her film debut as the lead of 2024's , with an ensemble cast of Hinatazaka46 fourth generation members and directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri. She also starred in the music video of its theme song, "Kyūkōken to Rhythm" by Conton Candy. In an interview, Kumakiri remarked that Shōgenji had been selected for the lead role as she could express various "colors".
Shōgenji made her solo radio debut in a special August 2025 broadcast of All Night Nippon 0 (Zero), during which she spontaneously abandoned her prepared material to talk about ghost stories. In October, she co-hosted a broadcast of Tokyo Speakeasy on Tokyo FM with her cousin, Mao Ioki of Nogizaka46, and guested on All Night Nippon X (Cross), hosted by fellow Hinatazaka46 member Konoka Matsuda. In January 2026, she appeared as a guest on voice actress Ayane Sakura's Ayane Sakura: Logic × Lonely radio program on TBS Radio. Shōgenji had admired Sakura since middle school and had portrayed the character Yotsuba Nakano in Hinatazaka46's 2024 stage adaptation of The Quintessential Quintuplets, whom Sakura had voiced in the preceding anime adaptation. Sakura later humorously designated Shōgenji as her "official younger sister (dog?)", nicknamed "Yokoshire Terrier", on a relationship chart for the program.
Shōgenji became a regular in the long-running All Night Nippon radio franchise as the Thursday host for All Night Nippon X in April 2026, taking over from Matsuda, who herself transitioned to All Night Nippon 0. To help her with her new role, Matsuda gifted her a notebook and showed her how she developed material for her broadcasts, while encouraging her to “speak whatever was on [her] mind”. At the announcement event in March, she met Sakanaction vocalist and guitarist Ichiro Yamaguchi, who would also begin hosting the main All Night Nippon program on Tuesdays, and the two bonded over their shared interest in guitar playing and supernatural stories. Writing for Bubka, entertainment writer Shin remarked on her adaptability and contrasted Matsuda's well-structured broadcasts to her "forceful" and "passionate" style, later comparing her to an unpredictable "fantasista" football player.
Shōgenji served as title song center for the third time for Hinatazaka46's 18th single, "Ichaicha Mushi", 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 "Kimi wa Honeydew" (2024), first title song center "Zettaiteki Dairokkan" (2024), first ever Hinatazaka46 title song double centers (with Kaho Fujishima) "What You Like!" (2025, released with "Love Yourself!"), with Kaho Fujishima and Rina Watanabe as the "Ichaicha 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 YearTitleRoleNotes2024Yurika IkezonoLead role
Television YearTitleRoleNotes2023−2024NHK High School Courses − "Informatics I" Co-host2023−presentHinatazaka Anime ClubCo-host2024Oha SutaYōko Shōgenji in the Daimonji and Mondaiji comedy shorts seriesGuest star; 4 episodes
Commercials YearTitleNotes2024Ice de BreakersMorinaga Ice Box commercial series2025Sony AssuranceSony Financial Group
Music videos YearTitleArtistNotes2024Conton CandyLead role; All of Tokyo! theme song
Bibliography TitleRelease datePublisherISBNTriangle Magazine 02 (photo collection)January 23, 2024Kodansha
Radio
Hinatazaka46 Yōko Shōgenji's All Night Nippon 0 (Zero) (August 17, 2025, Nippon Broadcasting System), special host Hinatazaka46 Yōko Shōgenji's All Night Nippon X (Cross) (April 2026–present, Nippon Broadcasting System), weekly host
Other appearances
Stage play
The Quintessential Quintuplets (2025), as Yotsuba Nakano (triple cast)
Notes
References
External links
Yōko Shōgenji's All Night Nippon X