My Favorite J-Pop Stars

My top picks. This is more of a “I have nothing to say post”, rather than a “I’m really horny” post.

	Tomiko Van – of the now disbanded Do As Infinity . Soon to start a solo career. Will you marry me?
	Koda Kumi – Very recently big pop singer. Did a Christina Aguilera (MSWord spell check had it! I'm floored!), going from cute and sweet to hot in sexy in one album . The belly dancing video has to be seen to be believed. Is also a spokeswoman for Christian Dior in Japan and known for the theme songs to Final Fantasy X-2 and the movie Cutie Honey .
	Utada Hikaru – Very cute, has a very wholesome image. Got married recently to the director of CASSHERN , who is about 11 years older than her. Amazing voice, but can't dance to save her life. In recent video she is doing one of her new English club songs and she just kinda bounces…
	Shinohara Ryoko – well known for a famous pop song in the 90s that was used as the theme to the original Street Fighter anime movie. Now a well known TV drama actress.
	Sheena Ringo – whose name can be spelled like 5 different ways, in a fairly popular J-Pop star you occasionally tours with Utada Hikaru in the US . Has been singing in bands since she was 15 and went solo four years later. Also, She was born with an illness in which the esophagus becomes more narrow as it gets closer to the stomach, resulting in many surgeries.
	hitomi – very attractive slim singer well known in Japan for a large number of successful singles including Candy Girl and Love 2000. Somewhat older for the J-Pop scene, being now 30, she's married to an advertising executive with twins. Came strongly into the limelight when rumors of her being a lesbian filled the Japanese papers alleging that she was in a secret relationship with another Japanese pop singer, Yoko Yamaguchi . Both hitomi and Yamaguchi have always denied the allegations, though jokingly. Commenting about it in a September 2005 interview, hitomi joked: "Of course Yoko and I were angry about it - who wouldn't? Instead of being called bisexuals, we were thought to be 'merely' lesbian!"- paraphrased from this article.

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