JYP Entertainment's nine-member girl group, NiziU, is quickly gaining fame in Japan. They released their first digital single "Make you happy" last month on June 30th and have ranked number one on the digital single daily chart of the Oricon charts. They also have ranked number one in the weekly ranking from June 29th to July 5th.
 

NiziU is a girl group produced by JYP Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment. They started the project last July and created the group through the 'Nizi Project' and the entire members are Japanese. NiziU is being called the Japanese TWICE because they produced this group using the same production method of JYP Entertainment's TWICE. 

While TWICE members were chosen through the show 'Sixteen' which aired on Mnet, the NiziU members were chosen through the 'Nizi Project' which aired on the Japanese channel NihonTV. The group successfully grabbed the attention of many people even before their debut because of the show. They have the same number of members as TWICE and J.Y. Park took charge of the album production along with the production of their debut song.

NiziU with JYP's Park Jin-Young!

NiziU is currently the most popular girl group in Japan and their popularity maybe thanks to the rise in popularity of Kpop among the Japanese people. However, many netizens wonder if NiziU is truly a Kpop group or would they be considered a Jpop group since all the members are Japanese and they mainly promote in Japan.

Nevertheless, we wish them all the best in their endeavours! Fighting NiziU!

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