Japan was shocked. On August 11, Bunshun Online reported that actress Ryoko Yonekura (50) was being investigated by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare’s Kanto Shinetsu Health and Welfare Bureau’s Narcotics Control Department (known as Matri) for violating the Narcotics Control Law. Yonekura enjoying a shopping date with her Argentine boyfriend. In October, there were many reporters from TV, newspapers, and weekly magazines gathered around Yonekura’s house,” said an entertainment reporter. In 1992, when Yonekura was a high school student, she won the judges’ special prize in the “All Japan National Beauty Contest” sponsored by Oscar Promotion. Yonekura was a high school student in 1992. She joined the same agency and made her modeling debut the following year. She then went on to become an actress, producing a number of popular films. In particular, her drama series “Doctor X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon” (TV Asahi), which started in 2012, became a huge hit, earning her the title of “Queen of Viewer Ratings. Yonekura, who had risen to the status of a national actress, reached a turning point. In March 2008, she left Oscar Promotion, to which she had belonged since her debut. Later, “he” also left the company and joined Yonekura. He” is the male manager who was in charge of Yonekura during her Oscar days. He is like a “partner” in her work. “It is said that Yonekura has made it this far as an actress thanks to him. When they first joined forces, they seemed to be working as hard together again as they did during their Oscar days, but their relationship gradually deteriorated. Yonekura’s chronic illness, which had been troubling her for some time, may have had an effect.” Yonekura, who announced that she had developed low CSF syndrome in ’19, fell ill again in ’21. She was diagnosed with motor dysfunction due to acute back pain and sacroiliac joint disorder, and in September 2010, she withdrew from “CHICAGO,” a musical in which she had starred, which had become her life’s work. Yonekura was no longer able to work as she wished. In the midst of all this, some media reported that “he,” Yonekura’s business partner, left her office in 2011. The actress’s career after becoming independent was not so good due to her poor health. The breakup with her longtime boyfriend may have been the decisive factor, and everything went wrong. What on earth is happening to Yonekura? The progress of the investigation is attracting attention.
