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Konoka Matsuda

Konoka Matsuda (Japanese: 松田 好花, Hepburn: Matsuda Konoka; born April 27, 1999) is a Japanese radio personality, television presenter, and actress. She hosts the radio program Konoka Matsuda's All Night Nippon 0 and has hosted various educational, variety, and morning television shows.

Matsuda was a member of the girl group Hinatazaka46 (formerly Hiragana Keyakizaka46) from 2017 to 2026. She is noted as the first Sakamichi Series group member to be credited as lyricist for a song performed by an entire group.

Matsuda was born in Kyoto Prefecture and has an older sister. She trained in classical ballet from the age of three until she joined Hiragana Keyakizaka46. She was a member of her school's taiko club and played guitar in a band.

On August 13, 2017, Matsuda joined the girl group Hiragana Keyakizaka46, now Hinatazaka46, as a second generation member. In her early variety show appearances, she was noted for her original gag that incorporated her ballet skill. She was one half of the guitar duo subgroup Hana-chans (花ちゃんズ, Hanachanzu) with fellow member Suzuka Tomita; the duo released their first and only song as part of Hinatazaka46's 3rd single and performed a live show outside the group on MTV Japan, titled MTV Acoustic Flowers: Until Full Bloom "Bell & Like", on June 27, 2021. During the first Hinata Fes in Miyazaki Prefecture in 2024, she played the taiko to start the concert on both days.

Matsuda played female lead Mariko Senri in an all-female stage adaptation of Rainbow Parakeet (2018), with Nogizaka46 member Junna Itō cross-cast as the titular protagonist. She played supporting characters in the Hinatazaka46 dramas Dasada (2020) and Koeharu! (2021).

In September 2020, Matsuda went on hiatus to treat an ophthalmic disease. During her break, she obtained the Kanji Kentei level 2 certification. She made her comeback at the live streamed Hinakuri 2020 concert on December 24.

Matsuda served as co-host for the "Society and Information" (社会と情報, Shakai to Jōhō) subject on NHK Educational TV's High School Course program from 2019 to 2020.

Matsuda's first solo radio program was the self-titled Konoka Matsuda's Hinatazaka High School Broadcasting Club on Nippon Broadcasting System, which ran from 2021 to 2023. In October 2023, she joined the long-running All Night Nippon radio franchise on the same station as a monthly host (final Saturdays of each month) for All Night Nippon 0 (Zero), and transitioned in April 2024 to a weekly schedule for its sister program All Night Nippon X (Cross), which aimed to synergize radio with new media technologies.

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