Miyu Uehara


Mutsumi Fujisaki, better known as Miyu Uehara, was a Japanese gravure idol and tarento.

Early life

Uehara was born Mutsumi Fujisaki on the island of Tanegashima on 2 May 1987. She had nine older siblings, and briefly attended high school in Kagoshima before dropping out.

Career

Uehara moved to Tokyo at the age of 17 and began glamour modeling while working as a hostess at a kyabakura. She soon established herself as a gravure idol and tarento, and came to be known as a "poverty idol" because of her poor background. After featuring on the cover of Weekly Playboy, she released her first photobook, Hare Tokidoki Namida in July 2009. She had appeared in a total of 445 television programs and two television commercials by May 2011, and was represented by Platinum Production.

Death

In the early hours of 12 May 2011, at the age of 24, Uehara took her own life via hanging at her apartment in the Meguro ward of Tokyo. Police reported that no suicide note was found and that some scribbled messages were discovered nearby, but it was not possible to ascertain whether she wrote them as they were illegible.

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