Shizuka Kudo’s interview with the foreign press

Shizuka Kudo for the first time has an interview with the foreign press regarding her latest single produced by Miyuki Nakajima and her marriage to Takuya Kimura.  Here is an excerpt from Metropolis Magazine/JapanToday.com written by Robert Poole:

“I don’t want to look back,” Shizuka Kudo says as we chat in a secluded area of an Ebisu café. “The past is the past and I don’t want to hang around!”

One of the most popular idols of the 1980s and ’90s, Kudo has enjoyed a phenomenally successful career, with 11 No. 1 hits, including eight in a row from 1988-1990. Where other idols simply drift into obscurity, she’s maintained a high profile, and today, at 38, she’s as high-spirited and talkative as ever.

In a rare interview with a foreign journalist, she opens up in surprisingly fluent British English. “A British accent is much easier, because you don’t have the ‘r’ sound like the Americans,” she explains. Her excitement and celebrated desire to succeed are evident throughout our discussion as she scribbles down new vocabulary and rattles through the questions in no time at all, eager for the next one.

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