Japan: DVD release by Politician Yuri Fujikawa

Posted 20 September 2008 0:04 GMT

Countries	Japan
Topics	Arts & Culture, Film, Politics
Languages	Japanese, English

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Japan

The upcoming release [ja] of a DVD featuring 27-year-old Japanese politician Yuri Fujikawa [藤川優里], member of the Hachinohe city [八戸市] assembly in Aomori Prefecture [青森県], is all the talk in the forums [ja]. Back when she first joined office in January of this year, Fujikawa was called “too beautiful” [ja], but at the time she had claimed [ja] that she had no plans to become a tarento.

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