JKT48 appearance on a concert at the Saitama Super Arena

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JKT48 first appeared in Japan in concert AKB48 Kōhaku Taiko Uta Gassen, December 20, 2011 at Tokyo Dome City Hall. Sixteen members of JKT48 performed in a large family concert AKB48, SKE48, NMB48, and HKT48. Besides watched by an audience of about 2,000 people at the Tokyo Dome City Hall,
the concert was also broadcast live in 113 cinema screens across Japan, as well as on YouTube and Google+. In this concert, AKB48 large families totaling 155 people divided into two teams, the red team and the white team were each trying to show their best performances. JKT48 put in the red team. Sixteen members of JKT48 performing on stage as well as a surprise guest star to the audience. As representatives of the red team, JKT48 rendition of "Aitakatta" in Indonesian, HKT48 against the white team with "Te o Tsunaginagara".