Nao Furuhata, born on 15 September 1996 in Aichi Prefecture, is a former member of the Japanese idol group SKE48. She passed the group's fifth generation auditions in October 2011, debuted that November, was promoted to Team E in August 2012, and held a concurrent position in AKB48's Team K from April 2013 to February 2014. The 2014 AKB48 Group Shuffle moved her to Team KII with a concurrent post in Team A, and that year she entered the general election rankings for the first time at 55th place with 14,634 votes; her AKB48 concurrency ended in March 2015. On 4 April 2020 she released three music videos with the metal band Bridear covering SKE48 songs and material from her 2018 solo EP, after their planned Tokyo and Osaka concerts were cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
