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TV personality Yuki Maomi announced her divorce on Instagram on August 24, saying she was “ending our relationship as a married couple and starting down a new path.” Her talent agency has also confirmed the divorce to reporters.
Since last August she had been living in Malaysia with her two daughters on a “mother-child study abroad” arrangement, while her husband stayed behind in Japan — a setup that fueled thread discussion ranging from how to pick a place to relocate to, to comparisons with other celebrities who’ve moved overseas, like Nakata Atsuhiko and his wife.
Mon, Aug 24, 5:03 PM
Daily Sports
TV personality Yuki Maomi, who relocated to Malaysia with her two daughters last August for a “mother-child study abroad” program, updated her Instagram on the 24th. “We’ve decided to end our relationship as a married couple and each start down a new path,” she wrote. Her agency also confirmed the divorce to Daily Sports.
Source: topics.smt.docomo.ne.jp / Original article here
What people said
This female talent?
The president vanished after sweeping both the Central and Pacific Leagues (a rare baseball feat)
if you were content with an ordinary life, you wouldn't want to go live somewhere like Malaysia in the first place
Feels like these two will end up moving back regardless
Does she have crypto holdings or something?
For overseas Chinese, Malaysia probably feels like their own backyard
Because it's a cheap destination for English-language education
This was probably decided a while ago, wasn't it?
Yuki Maomi
King Kong (the comedy duo)
Did you order the "Maomi Set Meal," obviously?
Does every celebrity's overseas move end in failure?
Heard the Nakatas were prepping their kid for junior-high entrance exams
Wasn't it just a few years' worth of tax savings from the start anyway?
With the yen this weak…
If you're earning and saving in dollars you might hold out a bit longer, but these are Japanese celebrities lol
Kikuchi Ami, who's apparently heading there next, might be getting played by someone too
An, who lives in France, could show her real skill if she can actually land work paid in euros when she puts her mind to it
Enjoying life in a foreign country is its own kind of talent
There must be plenty of unpleasant moments too
People who leave because they've given up on Japan out of dislike were never going to make it work
In the end you have to compromise somewhere
Born to a father who is half Japanese, half Chinese, and a mother who is half Russian, half Chinese [4].
Her family runs a Chinese restaurant in Saga [5][6].
Graduated from Saga Prefectural Chien-kan High School, then Tokyo Gakugei University's Faculty of Education, elementary school teacher training course, Japanese language major [3][5].
On September 25, 1990, she obtained a Class 4 amateur radio license and went on air (callsign JM6CRT) [27].
Her whole family holds amateur radio licenses (her father Class 2, her mother and herself Class 4).
She also earned an elementary school teaching license during university [4].
Comedian Arioshi Hiroyuki gave her the nickname "62 points" [28].
Later, as a running joke, it sometimes got knocked down to "30 points."
In 2002 she took Fuji TV's announcer hiring exam but was rejected at the final interview [29][30],
and decided to go freelance from then on [10].
She also once failed a Morning Musume audition [31].
Graduating from a top national university is a point in her favor
Private universities admit a lot of people via recommendation, so that's not a reliable gauge of academic ability
A lot of students from Saga get in there
I don't think you're one to talk
Do whatever you want
Come to think of it, wasn't she the one on TV who
stuck her chopsticks straight up in her bowl of rice
while talking? lol
What's that about
A funeral??? (standing chopsticks upright in rice is a funeral taboo in Japan)
Kikuchi Ami, Nakata Atsuhiko, GACKT…
Guess it's a solid spot to relocate to
Aren't you mixing that up with Singapore?
Background and Key Points
The phenomenon Yuki Maomi’s move fits is called *bosaku ryūgaku* (母子留学), “mother-child study abroad”: a mother relocates with her children so they can attend English-medium schools, while the father remains in Japan to keep working and sending money — effectively a reversed *tanshin funin* (the standard Japanese arrangement where the transferred employee, not the family, lives apart). Malaysia in particular built an industry around this through its MM2H (Malaysia My Second Home) long-stay visa, which made it one of the most accessible destinations for Japanese families wanting cheaper international schooling without the cost of Singapore, London, or Vancouver. Miyaneya, the Yomiuri/NNN daytime show she commentated on, is also winding down after roughly two decades on air, which posters flagged as removing whatever domestic anchor she still had.
The thread didn’t converge on the divorce itself so much as on why Malaysia was the destination — theories ranged from crypto-related tax motives to it simply being a well-trodden, low-cost English-education hub, with Nakata Atsuhiko’s family cited as a parallel case of a Japanese celebrity household trying overseas relocation and eventually drifting back.
One point of confusion worth flagging: a late reply conflates Malaysia with Singapore, but the two aren’t interchangeable for Japanese expatriates — Singapore is chosen mainly for tax and finance reasons, Malaysia’s MM2H draws people primarily for cost-effective schooling and lifestyle, not tax arbitrage. The thread never engages with MM2H’s actual requirements or costs, so the “is this a tax dodge” speculation floats without anyone checking the program itself.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Yuki Maomi announces divorce, “ending our relationship as a married couple” — agency confirms to press — moved to Malaysia last August with two daughters for mother-child study abroad, husband stayed in Japan.”
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