Sakai Noriko - Japan Beautiful Pop Singer

Noriko Sakai is a J-pop singer and actress. She is married (1998), and has one son (1999). She is particularly popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Her best-selling single to date is Aoi Usagi. Sakai released her debut single, “Otoko no Ko ni Naritai” on February 5, 1987, nine days short of her sixteenth birthday. Over 40,000 copies of the single were sold. On August 9, 2009, Victor Entertainment, the distributor of Sakai’s works, withdrew Sakai’s CDs from stores, and suspended downloads of her songs. On-line stores such as Amazon Japan still sell Sakai’s CDs and DVDs, despite increasing the selling prices as a result of Victor’s move.