TOKYO (TR) – The mother of singer Hikaru Utada died early Thursday morning in Shinjuku Ward in what police are ruling a suicide, reports Nikkan Sports (Aug. 22).
At around 7:00 a.m., the body of Keiko Fuji, whose real name is Junko Utada, was found on the street below a 60-story building in Nishi Shinjuku. Fuji, who is believed to have leaped from the building, was confirmed dead at a nearby hospital. She was 62.
Fuji was an accomplished actress and enka singer. Her debut album “Woman in Shinjuku,” which was released in 1970, spent 20 straight weeks at the top of Oricon chart.
Her only daughter, Hikaru, 30, rose to fame in pop music in the late 1990s after the debut of her “First Love,” which spawned the hits “Automatic/Time Will Tell” and “Movin’ on Without You.”
In 2006, the elder Utada had $400,000 confiscated from her luggage at JFK Airport in New York by drug enforcement officials just prior to boarding a plane for Las Vegas. She was not charged.
omg so sorry for Utada even though I don't like her I almost had a heart attack scrolling up for 1.5 seconds because I thought she was the one who died
Apparently the paparazzi or something is hounding utada's house, on the outside of course. They're waiting for her to say/do something I think.
It's the worst thing they can do at the moment!
Apparently the paparazzi or something is hounding utada's house, on the outside of course. They're waiting for her to say/do something I think.
It's the worst thing they can do at the moment!
Wow really? That's sort of surprising. I always thought paparazzi in Japan were more respectful of celebrities privacy than elsewhere.
Only Hikki