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Seiko Matsuda

OSAKA, Japan - Veteran singer Seiko Matsuda takes part in a first-pitch ceremony ahead of a Central League game between the Hanshin Tigers and the Chunichi Dragons at Kyocera Dome in Osaka on April 2, 2013.

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Seiko Matsuda to appear in NHK period drama

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2002 shows veteran Japanese singer Seiko Matsuda. Matsuda has been cast as Gion Nyogo in ''Taira no Kiyomori,'' NHK's period drama for 2012, which will be her first appearance in the yearlong drama series of the public broadcaster.

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Seiko Matsuda, husband agree to divorce

TOKYO, Japan - Popular Japanese vocalist Seiko Matsuda meets reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 7. She announced she and her husband, dentist Hiroyuki Hatano, have agreed to divorce. The couple tied the knot May 25, 1998, Matsuda's second marriage.

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Seiko Matsuda divorced

Seiko MATSUDA, a very popular pop-singer in Japan, announced her divorce from her husband and an actor Masaki Kanda. (Picture taken on January 10, 1997)

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Rating of NHK's "Kohaku" music show drops to record low

Seiko Matsuda sings her 1982 hit song "Akai Sweet Pea" during NHK's "Kohaku" song festival, an annual live program on New Year's Eve, at Tokyo's NHK Hall on Dec. 31, 2015. The viewership rating for the program was just 39.2%, the lowest in the extravaganza's 65-year history, according to Video Research Ltd., a TV audience ratings research company. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Seiko Matsuda to appear in NHK period drama

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2002 shows veteran Japanese singer Seiko Matsuda. Matsuda has been cast as Gion Nyogo in ''Taira no Kiyomori,'' NHK's period drama for 2012, which will be her first appearance in the yearlong drama series of the public broadcaster. (Kyodo)

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Seiko Matsuda, husband agree to divorce

TOKYO, Japan - Popular Japanese vocalist Seiko Matsuda meets reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 7. She announced she and her husband, dentist Hiroyuki Hatano, have agreed to divorce. The couple tied the knot May 25, 1998, Matsuda's second marriage.

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Seiko Matsuda to go through 2nd divorce

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows popular Japanese vocalist Seiko Matsuda and dentist Hiroyuki Hatano in their wedding ceremony on May 25, 1998. Sources close to Matsuda's agent said Dec. 6 that the couple will divorce in the near future.