Yukiko Okada

Yukiko Okada

Yukiko Okada in 1984
Native name 岡田 有希子
Born Kayo Satō (佐藤 佳代)
(1967-08-22)August 22, 1967
Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
Died April 8, 1986(1986-04-08) (aged 18)
Tokyo, Japan
Other names Yukko
Occupation

Musical career

Genres
Instruments
Years active 1984–1986
Labels

Yukiko Okada (岡田 有希子 Okada Yukiko, August 22, 1967 April 8, 1986) was a Japanese pop singer and winner of the talent show Star Tanjō! in Tokyo, Japan.

Early life

Okada was born on August 22, 1967, the second daughter of the Satō family. The family later moved to Nagoya. In elementary school, Okada loved to read, especially comic books, and she was a talented artist. In junior high school, Okada wanted to become a singer and applied for every possible audition, anything from major productions to the smallest talent recruitment, hoping to become a star. She was rejected every time until she was finally accepted to a TV talent program, Star Tanjō! on Nippon Television – similar to Star Search - which she won in March 1983.

Career

On April 21, 1984, Okada released her first single, "First Date". She was known as "Yukko", which is a common abbreviation for the name "Yukiko" in the Japanese language.

That year, Okada won Rookie of the Year, and was awarded the 26th Japan Record Awards Grand Prix Best New Artist Award for her third single, "-Dreaming Girl- Koi, Hajimemashite".

Okada played the leading role in her first television drama Kinjirareta Mariko (The Forbidden Mariko), in 1985. Her 1986 single "Kuchibiru Network", written by Seiko Matsuda and composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, reached number one on the Oricon weekly singles chart dated February 10, 1986.

Death

The Sun Music building, located in Yotsuya, Tokyo

On April 8, 1986, Okada was found with a slashed wrist in her gas-filled Tokyo apartment, crouching in a closet and crying. Two hours later, Okada jumped to her death from the seven-story Sun Music Agency building.[1][2] The reason for the suicide is still unknown. Her death resulted in many copycat suicides in Japan, soon christened with the neologism "Yukiko Syndrome".[3][4][5][6]

Discography

Singles

Albums

References

  1. "Yukiko Okada". ACA Music. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  2. Yosha Research
  3. Okada Yukiko
  4. John Greenless, Paradox ò Japan Epidemic of suicides among young people, The Glasgow Herald - 11. Apr. 1987, trang 37
  5. Japanese Society Since 1945 by Edward R. Beauchamp, Taylor & Francis, 1998, ISBN 0-8153-2732-3, trang 97
  6. Japanese Youth and the Yukiko Syndrome, Far Eastern Economic Review, July 17, 1986

External links

Preceded by
The Good-Bye
Japan Record Award for Best New Artist
1984
Succeeded by
Miho Nakayama
Preceded by
The Good-Bye
FNS Music Festival for Best New Artist
1984
Succeeded by
Minako Honda
Preceded by
The Good-Bye, Sayuri Iwai, Yasuko Kuwata
Shinjuku Music Festival for Gold Prize
1984 (with : Koji Kikkawa)
Succeeded by
Shigeyuki Nakamura, Minako Honda
Preceded by
The Good-Bye
Ginza Music Festival for Grand Prix
1984
Succeeded by
Noriko Matsumoto
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