Background
Helen was born in Kyoto on 6 October 1946 but has not revealed who her father was. After her marriage, she acknowledged that her first name was derived from Helen Keller, a person her father admired.
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Helen Nishikawa
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Career
She is well known as the wife of the comedian and former politician and has written two books In Japan single parent women generally have a lower social status, as did entertainers, and as an American-Japanese shortly after World World War II, Helen suffered much bullying in her early age. Helen"s made her stage debut as a dancer in Yoshimoto Kogyo in 1963.
Her purity and eagerness was loved by audiences and she immediately became one of the leading actresses in Yoshimoto New Comedy with the stage name "Helen Sugimoto".
Helen, already a star, married a lowly actor in the Yoshimoto Kogyo theatre company called who went on to became the most successful entertainer of the manzai and owarai styles (traditional Japanese stand-up comedy involving two performers) in the 1970s and 80s. In his earlier days, Helen took care of him and his co-starring comedian, Yokoyama Yasushi.
A position held for 18 years. In 1999, Nishikawa ranked fourth in a list of the wealthiest representative with 175.68 million Yen annual income.
In a recent poll, the couple were considered to be who the Japanese consider to be the second best role models of an "international couple".
Their lives were dramatised in a 2006 series made by the national Nihon Television company. Mother
Helen still acts or presents on Japanese television programs mainly oriented for housewives or older women.
