{"id":2064,"date":"2009-08-13T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2009\/08\/13\/heavens-coin-noriko-sekai-gets-busted\/"},"modified":"2009-08-13T19:00:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T10:00:31","slug":"heavens-coin-noriko-sekai-gets-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=2064","title":{"rendered":"Heavens Coin:  Noriko Sekai gets Busted!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/noriko-sakai-cp-250-7138695.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"318\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nit&#8217;s the biggest news story in japan for the past week now.  famous actess\/model\/singer noriko sekai got busted for the drug ice.  they police found it in her apartment and she took off running, then turned herself in.  i was shocked because noriko sekai was one of my favorite actresses when i was hooked on watching dramas all day everyday in japan.  i use to run to the video store and if i seen her on the cover, i would rent it, even though i couldn&#8217;t understand japanese.  i even had one of her music cd&#8217;s.  so watching her on the news this week kind of bummed me out&#8230;.<br \/>\nthen enter her husband who claims to be a pro surfer.  yuichi takaso claimed to be a pro surfer even though i&#8217;ve never heard of him, nor anybody else until he got married to the star.  i, along with many other pro surfers don&#8217;t like the fact people call themselves pro surfers and do bad things that tarnish our already tarnished image.  surfers have had it hard and never get the respect they deserve.  i&#8217;ve been doing it for 20 years and i&#8217;m still ashamed to call myself a pro surfer at times.  it&#8217;s kind of embarrassing because people look down to surfers.  and if i do tell them i&#8217;m a professional surfer, they ask me &#8220;how do you make a living?&#8221;<br \/>\nso when i got a call from a friend out of the blues yesterday telling me &#8220;kirby, be very careful.  please don&#8217;t do anything bad, i&#8217;m worried about you&#8221;.  i knew it was related to the big news that&#8217;s happening right now.  one sour grape made us all look like sour grapes.  that sucks&#8230;<br \/>\nso here&#8217;s what i think.  i kind of feel sorry for noriko sakai.  i don&#8217;t blame her for what she&#8217;s done.  well, maybe a little because she&#8217;s an adult.  but i mostly blame the person who introduced her to that drug.  drugs are addicting and it&#8217;s like giving candy to a baby.  drug dealers are the ones to blame&#8230;.  it&#8217;s a sad ending to such a bright star.  now she has to live with the consequences for the rest of her life&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/300px-VICL-8129_f.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nand for those of you in hawaii that don&#8217;t recgonize noriko sekai.  she was the leading actress in the popular drama &#8220;HOSHI NO KINKA&#8221; OR &#8220;HEAVENS COIN&#8221; back in the late 90&#8217;s.  it played like 3 times on KIKU TV and was the start of the japanese drama boom in hawaii.  yup, her name was &#8220;Aya&#8221; in the drama and everybody loved her, including me.  she even sang that opening song.  i always felt sorry for her in the drama because her part was always sad.  and now in real life, it&#8217;s just as sad&#8230;<br \/>\none last thing.  to all you surfers out there that want to become a professional.  do it right.  there are steps to becoming a professional surfer in japan.  we all did it the right way and if your don&#8217;t, please don&#8217;t call yourself a pro and tarnish our image anymore than it&#8217;s already been tarnished&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jpsa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">**ON HOW TO BECOME A PRO SURFER OR INFORMATION ABOUT REAL PRO SURFERS, CLICK ON THE OFFICIAL JPSA WEBSITE&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s the biggest news story in japan for the past week now. famous actess\/model\/singer noriko sekai got busted for the drug ice. they police found it in her apartment and she took off running, then turned herself in. i was shocked because noriko sekai was one of my favorite actresses when i was hooked on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}