Model and actress was Tokyo born on August 12, 1968.
She began modeling at age 6, became a teen singing idol at 14 after winning a Tokyo beauty pageant and had a series of hits and best-selling albums.
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Gravure Idol and actress Kumiko Takeda was Tokyo born on August 12, 1968.
She actually married an American and moved out to the States, thus effectively ending her career in Japan in the Nineties.
This led to her writing a series of bestāselling books on the secrets to staying beautiful and sexy as you age with her fifth book in the series, Being Kumiko Takeda at 43.