On October 28, the Autumn Garden Party was held at Akasaka Gyoen in Tokyo. The garden party was surrounded by autumn sunlight. Momoko Kikuchi’ s husband, Hiroo Niihara, who is nine years older than her, was dressed in a tuxedo. Momoko Kikuchi wore a tuxedo. Kikuchi wore a light-colored kimono and reported that they both attended the garden party in formal attire.
Kikuchi was dressed in a light kimono and Kikuchi reported that they both attended the garden party in formal attire.
The day’s events were reported on television, including the evening news. While greeting the Emperor and Empress, Mr. Niihara mentioned that he himself retired last year as a cabinet advisor and is now a visiting professor at a graduate school, etc., and that his daughter graduated from college this year and joined a radio station,” said a TV station official. She seems to have a kind and warm husband. I think they look good together,” “Momoko-san looks good in kimono,” “They make a wonderful couple,” and so on. “I think your husband’s morning kimono doesn’t fit his body. “My husband’s morning dress is a little…. What’s wrong with his pants? Are you wearing them lowered at the waist because of your belly? Some pointed out.
Kikuchi’s “turbulent life
Niihara joined the former Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) after graduating from the University of Tokyo, and as a bureaucrat in the Prime Minister’s Office, he was in charge of the administration’s signature policies at the time. They married in 2019, Mr. Niihara’s first marriage and Kikuchi’s second. Kikuchi, who debuted in show business in 1984 and was active as an actress and singer, married a professional golfer with whom she had been in a relationship for some “twists and turns” in 1995, and their first son was born in 1996, which was followed by the stillbirth of their second child. In 2001, her first daughter was born, and she became a regular on the TBS lifestyle information program “Hanamaru Market” and was also active as a “mamatare,” but in 2012, she announced her divorce. In 2015, Kikuchi was appointed as a private member of the “National Council for 100 Million Actors” under the cabinet of then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and it was there that she met Niihara. Kikuchi, who had struggled to balance work and child rearing, was reported to have had enough of marriage, but her remarriage to an elite bureaucrat from the Kasumigaseki bureaucracy became a major topic of conversation. At the garden party, jockey Yutaka Take and his wife, Sano, also attended the event. The net reaction to her appearance was “It’s been a while since I’ve seen her” and “She looks as lovely as ever. Kikuchi and Sano, both 57 years old and born in 1968, are the same age, and it seems that warm autumn light was shining on them now that they are fulfilled after their run as idols in their 80s.