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Takabe Tomoko (高部知子) is a Japanese talento, therapist and counselor, former actress, former model, and former idol. She is also a former member of the idol group Warabe.

History[]

After a major scandal in summer of 1983, she was suspended from entertainment. She made a comeback a little more than a year later, but it wasn't successful, so she retired from singing and acting after getting married in 1989. She made a brief return to entertainment in 1999 as an erotic model but retired again shortly after that.

She enrolled in university in 2000, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2005. Shortly after, she re-enrolled at Tokyo Fukushi University and entered their Social Work training program and got her license. She currently works in the mental healthcare industry and specializes in helping those dealing with with dementia or drug and alcohol addictions. She has also returned to the industry as a talento and public speaker.

Scandal Details[]

✝ This text contains information about suicide ✝
In June 1983, tabloid magazine FOCUS published a photo of 15-year-old Takabe smoking in bed and possibly nude, which not only clashed with her idol image but also showed her committing the crime of underage smoking. Her 18-year-old ex-boyfriend, who she had dated for three months, released the photo to the press, claiming it was to protect himself from organized crime threats.[1] After the photo's release, he was found dead on September 4th, 1983 in Shibasato, Ibaraki in an apparent suicide.[2] Takabe was immediately suspended from Warabe after the release of the photo and later fired after the ex-boyfriend's death. The scandal, called the Nyan Nyan Scandal due to a tabloid caption and song lyrics from Medaka no Kyoudai, inspired the name of the group Onyanko Club[3]

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External links[]

  1. "Behind the Focus Scoop" pp.41-42. 1983
  2. "Weekly Women in the September 27, 1983 issue of Remarks by Kinichi Hagimoto " (Kaoru Hosen "The light and dark of the three people played by the children of the good old days" "Alter Books 004 Life as an Idol" Media Works , 1998, pp.76-79.)
  3. Harumi Ishibashi , Seal Kayo Daizen , Sansai Books , 2007, p.198
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