Famous People in Japan



Yoshikawa Hinano

Date of Birth December 21, 1979
Place of Birth Tokyo
Blood Type B
Constellation Sagittarius
Hobby Music appreciation

She was scouted when she was shopping with her mother in July, 1994. She was fourteen. Soon after she was scouted, she did a poster for a famous department store named "Isetan." She became very popular because she has a very cute face like a doll and has a very good figure. In fact, the poster was very beautiful and fantastic.

At first, she worked as a magazine model for Mens Nonno and Hi Fashion. These magazines are famous with young people.

Not only a model, but she began to appear on some TV commercials as a personality, for example, Coca Cola, Koutiya Kaden, Toyota Tarsel, Glico Pocky, Mister Donut, and Sapuri

She acted as a regular performer in a variety TV program. On this program, her individuality was shown fully.

She began to sell her CDs and her photographic book, Hinano. The book has a lot of black-and-white photographs and it's great. She became famous in various fields because she has nice character.

This year, she played the leading role for the first time in a drama, Sansimai Tantei Monogatari. In the drama, she was the oldest daughter of three sisters, and the plot was that the sisters were confronted with a lot of incidents and settled them.

Recently, there is a rumor that she is seeing a singer named IZAM. He is the vocalist of a group named Shazuna. Neither of them denied the rumor and declared that they were seeing each other.

There are six people and nine pets in her family, parents, older brother, older sister, she, younger sister, cats and dogs. She says that all her family are getting on well with each other. It seems that her pretty and cheerful character was formed through the environment of her warm-hearted family.

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References: magazines

Reported by: Adachi Mika
Data verified by: Ito Mari
Date of Report: July 1998

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