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Encyclopedia > Norika Fujiwara
Norika Fujiwara

Norika Fujiwara (藤原紀香 Fujiwara Norika, born June 28, 1971 in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture) is a Japanese beauty queen, model and actress. She became Miss Japan in 1992 and was an exclusive model for CanCam magazine. She has appeared in various commercials and TV series and a number of films in Japan. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (800x1160, 179 KB)Norika Fujiwara. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (800x1160, 179 KB)Norika Fujiwara. ... June 28 is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday. ... Nishinomiya (西宮市; Nishinomiya-shi) is a city located in Hyōgo, Japan, between the cities of ÅŒsaka and Kōbe. ... Hyōgo Prefecture (兵庫県 Hyōgo-ken) is located in the Kinki region on Honshu island, Japan. ... Mrs. ... Photograph of the once famous model Dovima A model is a person who poses or displays for purposes of art, fashion, or other products and advertising. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... CanCam kyankyan) is a Japanese fashion magazine published by Shogakukan. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Television series redirects here. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...

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Biography

  • After several years of her model career, she has since served as a ambassador of the Japano-South Korean friendship for the Football World Cup 2002 and also as a reporter for the 2004 Olympic Games in Greece to support the Japanese Olympic team.
  • Fujiwara was a guest reporter and interviewer for the K-1, which is a new style of martial arts show, until 2006. She used to show people her emotion to romantically think of late K-1 legend, Andy Hug [1].
  • Fujiwara appeared in TV games. Her latest work is Alicia, who is the main heroine of Project Minerva on the Playstation 2 in 2002, and even showed up in a squad-based, real-time, and semi-RPG-versus robot game, which was later released as an English version with more missions as Project Minerva Professional by Midas Interactive of the United Kingdom.
  • Fujiwara is a voice actor for Princess Fiona in the Japanese subtiles of both Shrek and Shrek 2.
  • Fujiwara got married to Osaka-based comedian Tomonori Jinnai, with whom she held their marital celemony in the religious way of the Shinto style on the 17th of February, 2007 at Ikuta Shrine located in Kobe city, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. [1]
  • Her husband and Fujiwara held their western-styled wedding ceremony on the 30th of May, 2007. Many of their family members, relatives, and friends joined the ceremony, where Jinnai emotionally played the piano for his wife. She did not know he had practiced a lot for their wedding ceremony to show them how much he loves his wife until he told them about that in public. The ceremony was broadcast live on TV throughout the country.

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Sneak shot suspicion by Masashi Tashiro

Fujiwara once hosted a sport program, called "SRS", by Fuji Television with television star Masashi Tashiro. It is rumored by some that Masahi Tashiro may have secretly installed a hidden camera in the women's restroom to covertly record Fujiwara and other women changing clothes or using the restroom facilities. However, no video or images from this supposed electronic surveillance has appeared. [2] Fuji Television Network, Inc. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


References

  1. ^ Japan Today February 18, 2007.
  2. ^ 藤原紀香：カルト事件簿検索結果

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