Race Queens

Namie Amuro Profile

Name: Namie Amuro
Height: 5' 2¼\"
Sex: F
Nationality: Japanese
Birth Date: September 20, 1977
Birth Place: Okinawa, Japan
Profession: actress, musician

Huo Si Yan Profile

# Name: 霍思燕 / Huo Si Yan
# Also known as: 燕燕 / Yan Yan
# Profession: Actress
# Birthdate: 1981-Oct-23
# Birthplace: Beijing, China
# Height: 165cm
# Weight: 44kg
# Star sign: Libra
# Chinese zodiac: Rooster
# Blood type: A

Shōko Nakagawa (中川翔子, Nakagawa Shōko?, born May 5, 1985, in Tokyo) is a female Japanese idol and multi-talented celebrity (an actress, seiyū (voice actor), illustrator, singer and blogger). She is the daughter of Katsuhiko Nakagawa.

She belongs to the Watanabe Entertainment talent agency. Her nickname is Shokotan. (In the blog by Mika Kaneda, who appeared with her on “Ōsama no Brunch”, she is called Shokotasu. She is left-handed.

She has listed Bruce Lee, the idol Seiko Matsuda, and the anime characters Vegeta, Trunks and Sephiroth as people she respects.

She is famous for liking manga and anime, and also enjoys watching professional boxing.

* In 1994, when she was nine, her father Katsuhiko Nakagawa died of leukaemia, and from then on she was raised by her mother alone.
* In 2001 she won the Grand Prix award at the Popolo Girl Audition, thus making her debut in the entertainment world.
* At the time of her debut, she belonged to the Jackie Chan talent agency.
o Later, on the “Yume-Ga-Oka Residence” programme on SKY PerfecTV!, she was given a Jackie Chan photobook by Midorikawa Shobō, who were guests on the show. She commented “I thought he was an enemy of Bruce Lee’s”, apparently referring to Enter the Dragon, but this is a curious statement, given that she belonged to the Jackie Chan talent agency and has also met Jackie Chan himself.
* In 2002 she was chosen as Miss Shōnen Magazine 2002.
* In 2004, when she appeared in a brief section of “Kangaeru Hito” (“People who think”) on the Fuji TV network, she showed her ability as an illustrator, which won her a regular place on the later version of the programme which started with minor changes in early 2005, “Kangaeru Hitokoma” (“Thinking about one frame [of a cartoon strip]”).
* From May 2005, for just under a year, she appeared as a regular on the TBS programme “Ōsama no Brunch”, which made her well-known among the general public.
* In July 2006, she released her debut CD, “Brilliant Dream”. It entered the Oricon chart at number 29, with initial sales of 6313 CDs.

V-U-DEN Profile

v-u-den (美勇伝, Biyūden?) (also romanized Biyuuden, Viyuden, or Biyuden) is a J-Pop group within Hello! Project. The group was formed in August 2004 and consists of members Rika Ishikawa, Erika Miyoshi, and Yui Okada, with Ishikawa being the leader. The name means: beauty(bi), bravery (yu), and legend (den)