On the morning of October 11, the first day of a three-day weekend, a shocking report came in. According to a report in Bunshun Online, actress Ryoko Yonekura (50), a.k.a. “Matri,” is under investigation by the Narcotics Control Department of the Kanto Shinetsu Health and Welfare Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. According to the article, Matri is behind the scenes investigating Yonekura for violation of the Narcotics Control Law, and on August 20, Matri raided Yonekura’s apartment in Tokyo. Yonekura’s office did not respond to inquiries from the Shukan Bunshun by the deadline. Yonekura entered the entertainment industry as a model after winning a special jury prize in Oscar Promotion’s “All Japan National Beauty Contest” in 1992, and made her debut as an actress in 1999. She steadily appeared in high-profile dramas such as “Love Revolution” (Fuji TV) in 2001, and her role as a bad girl in “Seicho Matsumoto: The Black Leather Handbook” (TV Asahi) in 2004 was highly acclaimed and became her breakthrough as an actress. She then became a national actress when her role in the series “Doctor X – Surgeon Michiko Daimon” (TV Asahi), which began in 2000, recorded high ratings across the board, and in 2000 she made her starring debut on Broadway in New York in the musical “CHIKAGO. She has become a nationally known actress. In March 2008, she left Oscar Promotion, to which she had belonged for less than 30 years, and established her own agency. Yonekura has often played cool women with a strong sense of justice, such as Daimon Michiko in “Doctor X” who always says, “I never fail. Since Yonekura was thought to be free from such scandals, the news, which is so contrary to her image, has caused shock on social networking sites. Although it came out of the blue, Yonekura had been acting in a way that could be considered a “precursor” to the scandal. A person involved in the entertainment industry said. Yonekura opened an Instagram page in May 2008 after she became independent and updated it regularly, but she stopped updating it after posting on August 19 this year. No reason has been given. If the Bunshun report is true, it makes sense since it was the day after Matri conducted a house search. She was also absent from a series of events she was scheduled to attend in September and October, citing “poor health” at the last minute, and was absent from the “21st Clarino Beautiful Legs Award” ceremony held on October 6, where she was selected in the over 40ty category. She was absent from the ceremony, and her comments were read in her place at the venue. Furthermore, “NEWS POST SEVEN” reported that Yonekura also withdrew from the position of ambassador for a luxury car brand, which she was scheduled to assume, and that the presentation itself, which was scheduled to be held in late September, was canceled as a result. In hindsight, Yonekura may have declined to become an ambassador for the luxury car brand in order to avoid any trouble with the investigation. She was also worried about her “severe weight loss. In addition, on July 1, it was announced that Yonekura would be featured in a new commercial for a recruitment agency, but before long the YouTube video of the same commercial was deleted and no longer available. This magazine also reported that Yonekura has been the “face” of Rakuten Mobile for five years since 2008, and that Yonekura has asked Rakuten Mobile to refrain from advertising work for a while. In addition, her Argentine boyfriend, whom this magazine first reported her relationship with in January 2008, has recently been away from Japan, and a dance school in Tokyo where she teaches has reportedly canceled a lesson that was to be held. In retrospect, these “strange events” could be considered omens. We can only hope that she will overcome these problems and come back to Japan.
