TOKYO (TR) – Actress Rei Kikukawa introduced final week that she is divorcing her husband, IT mogul Yoshiteru Akita.
“Though the form of our household will change, we’ll proceed to be irreplaceable father and mom to our kids,” the 46-year-old actress wrote on Instagram on November 6. “So, we’ll respect one another and proceed to provide our kids a lot of love and nurture them.”
The announcement marks the top of a union that received off to rocky begin with stories about Akida having a number of illegitimate kids, stories the location for weekly journal Josei Jishin.
Kikukawa married Akida, 55, in April 2017. The next month, the weekly reported that the newlywed couple had been dwelling individually shortly after the marriage.
On the time, Kikukawa’s company commented, “Kikukawa’s work is busy, so she hasn’t made any progress on her transfer but. When she has time, she plans to maneuver to her new residence immediately.”
It was that very same month that one other weekly, Shukan Bunshun, reported that Akita has 4 illegitimate kids.
In response to the article, two girls gave start to 2 kids fathered by Akita at across the similar time in 2012. One in every of them, who contemplated suicide after discovering out in regards to the different pregnant lady, gave start to a different of Akita’s kids three years later.
The fourth little one was born to a lady Akita met in 2004 whereas she was a third-year highschool scholar. Akita, who was married to a unique lady on the time, rented the woman a residence in Tokyo. After she grew to become pregnant whereas aged in her 20s, he paid 1 million yen to cowl the price of the following start however declined to pay child-rearing bills and severed ties along with her, in accordance with Bunshun.
Two years later after that article was launched, Kikukawa introduced the start of her first little one in April 2019. Her second little one was born in December 2020. Two years later, she revealed that she had given start to her third little one in a radio interview with Michiko Shimizu.
Kikukawa began her profession in present enterprise in 1998 after being scouted in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward. The native of Saitama Prefecture began as a gravure (pin-up) mannequin for magazines earlier than showing in quite a lot of movies (“Godzilla: Closing Wars”) and tv packages. She additionally serves as a information anchor.
Between 2001 and 2006, Akita served as president of Kakaku (operator of purchasing portal Kakaku.com). This 12 months, he grew to become CEO of Kufu AI Studio Co., Ltd.
Whereas she was a information anchor info program “Tokudane!” in 2017, she introduced her marriage in tears. Three weeks later, rumors started to unfold that her husband had been divorced earlier than and that he had 4 illegitimate kids.
A supply from an leisure manufacturing firm tells Josei Jishin, “Kikukawa’s kids are nonetheless younger, so it was thought she would take a break from work for some time. However she all of the sudden opened an Instagram account in June of final 12 months. It was additionally the twenty fifth anniversary of her debut, and he or she uploaded a photograph from a press convention in June 1999 the place she declared herself an actress with Ryoko Yonekura.”
Since then, she has appeared on a number of selection reveals, and he or she even took on the problem of filming in Kochi Prefecture for “Asa Da! Nama Desu Tabi Salad,” which aired in September final 12 months. In April of this 12 months, she returned to appearing for the primary time in eight years within the drama “Kawareta Otoko.”
