Yukiko Okada

Yukiko Okada

Acting
Born
August 22, 1967 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
Died
April 8, 1986
Age
Died at age 18

Biography

Yukiko Okada (岡田 有希子, Okada Yukiko, August 22, 1967 – April 8, 1986) was a Japanese singer and actress, active in the mid-1980s. After winning a nationwide television show at age 15 in 1983, she debuted as an idol in 1984. Her death by suicide two years later led to a number of copycat suicides, a phenomenon that would bear her name.

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