On October 11, Shukan Bunshun (weekly magazine) reported on this case. It reported that the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare’s Kanto Shinetsu Bureau of Health and Welfare’s Narcotics Control Department, commonly known as Matri, was planning to conduct a full-scale investigation of Yonekura on suspicion of violating the Narcotics Control Law. The magazine also photographed the raid in late August. A source with knowledge of the situation said, “Yonekura was suddenly under investigation. Yonekura seemed surprised at first by the sudden investigation, but I heard that she responded in a decent manner to the raid and to the interview at the government office building where Matrix was housed. On the other hand, since the “Bunshun” report, we have not heard any movement on the part of Matri regarding this matter. Some people on Yonekura’s side have voiced their doubts about the fact that she was widely reported by the media in the middle of the investigation, even though she has not been arrested. She has often played the role of a “strong woman” in dramas. In the series “Doctor X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon,” in which she plays the lead role, Yonekura plays the role of a genius surgeon whose signature line is “I never fail. In “Angel Flight,” a drama version of which was released on Amazon Prime Video in 2023, she played the role of a company president with a mentality of steel.
When will they stop using me…”
However, a TV station official who has known Yonekura for a long time worries, “Her true face is a little different from the image she portrays in her roles. Yonekura debuted as a model at the age of 17, but even then she was a very stoic and hardworking person. She did not originally aspire to a spectacular TV career, and she studied and acquired skills in acting and musical activities for each production. She has a strong image of a “strong woman” like her role as Daimon in “Doctor X,” but she is actually a hard worker who is also very strict with herself and pushes herself too hard. If anything, she seems to be the type with low self-esteem. When she drinks, she sometimes says things like, “I don’t know when they will stop using me,” or “I want to do something completely new, not just be an actress. In 2000, before her breakthrough, “FRIDAY” reported that Yonekura had been in a semi-living together relationship with a married man in the past and that this partner was serving a prison sentence for drugs and fraud at the time. In 2000, she was arrested for having a semi-living relationship with a married man in FRIDAY. Since then, she has reportedly been in relationships with kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro (47) and Otokogumi member and actor Okamoto Kenichi (56), and announced her marriage to a civilian at the end of 2014. Yonekura was also said to have been in a situation where she continued to listen to her partner. They were unable to have an “equal relationship,” and divorced after about two years. A source who knew Yonekura as a child said, “She went to dance lessons every day from when she was little and was a really hard worker. She could study well and was admired by everyone, but compared to the expectations of those around her, she seemed very humble. Many fans and others are watching with bated breath to see what will happen next.