Voice actress Suzuko Mimori revealed on Instagram that it took her four days to get a prescription filled while living in the United States. She hadn’t realized that switching insurance plans also meant switching pharmacies, which complicated the process. On 5ch (Japan’s largest anonymous forum, successor to the old “2channel”), the reaction wasn’t so much concern over the finances of Mimori — who’s married to pro wrestler Kazuchika Okada — but rather surprise at the US health insurance system itself, with many pointing out that the cost could have been avoided with the right coverage. Commenters also shared their own stories of paying steep medical bills, fueling wider interest in how different healthcare is in the US compared to Japan.
September 17, 2026, 12:34 PM
Voice actress Suzuko Mimori, who lives in the US, updated her Instagram by the 17th, writing about her experience with the local healthcare system.
Using Instagram’s Story feature, Mimori described the struggle of getting medication after a doctor’s visit: “Four days after getting the prescription, I finally got my meds…!” She went on, “I recently switched insurance, so I also had to switch pharmacies, but I had no idea… I just assumed you could pick up medicine anywhere. If my English were better, I could’ve handled that transition more smoothly.” She added, “Guess I just have to push through!! The pharmacy staff helped me so much!! So grateful.”
Yeah, her husband makes like 30x what an average person earns, so this is nothing to them.
5Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:25:32.34
This kind of thing happens all the time when traveling in the US. Pre-existing conditions aside, even a sudden toothache can turn into an ordeal.
8Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:26:43.00
Mimori's probably not moving back to Japan until her husband stops raking it in over there.
9Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:26:54.86
Wait, is she still even a voice actress?
10Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:27:28.18
Re: #9 These days she's apparently more of a women's pro wrestler [i.e., better known as the wrestler's wife].
12Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:27:56.61
Her husband's supposedly making 2 billion yen over 3 years — she could just pay out of pocket for the occasional medicine bill.
14Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:28:41.27
Re: #12 Source? Please.
44Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:56:33.46
Re: #14 Just Google it, lol.
71Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 16:55:44.00
Re: #14 I think it was made public as part of his AEW [All Elite Wrestling, the US promotion] contract figures.
15Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:29:06.17
That's just how the US insurance system works.
22Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:33:05.80
She was the most popular member of Milky Holmes [an anime idol-unit franchise] and was even in Love Live!
65Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 16:48:10.81
Re: #22 On Love Live!, she and [fellow cast member] Tokui used to joke-complain that they'd signed on thinking it was just voice work for the anime, only to somehow end up doing face-revealing idol activities too.
23Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:35:03.77
Pretty sure Mimori did a cold medicine commercial at some point.
24Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:35:34.08
Midori's out in Akita growing rice while doing an ego-search on herself right now ["ego-search" = Googling your own name to see what people are saying].
36Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:44:07.71
She should've just signed up for insurance. And if you don't know the language well, stuff like this happens.
79Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 17:12:54.81
Re: #36 Nobody said she didn't have insurance.
37Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:44:11.56
Isn't she related to the president of Bushiroad [a Japanese toy/card-game company]?
41Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:52:31.97
Re: #37 She's the cousin of a former vice president [of Bushiroad].
42Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 15:53:53.27
61Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 16:42:31.32
Re: #42 Her armpits are kinda hot, lol.
62Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 16:43:22.43
63Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 16:46:09.78
I always figured US healthcare was insanely expensive — doesn't even a rich person risk going bankrupt from treatment if they get seriously ill?
68Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 16:51:04.52
Re: #63 You just buy your own insurance. Got money? You get generous coverage. Don't? You go without. Honestly it's kind of the same in Japan — a healthy young person might not visit a hospital even once a year, so paying hundreds of thousands of yen annually in premiums can feel like money down the drain too.
69Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 16:51:54.73
Re: #63 There was a popular wrestler named Stan Hansen who made a fortune wrestling mainly in Japan. After retiring, he had artificial joints put in his shoulder and hip, and the medical bills reportedly wiped out almost all of his considerable savings — apparently he barely managed to hold onto his house.
70Anonymous2026/09/17 (Thu) 16:53:39.35
Re: #63 If you've got insurance, you're fine. If you don't… good luck (lit. "it's drugs" — a dark joke that you're left to fend for yourself).
Background and discussion points
Unlike Japan’s universal national health insurance system, US health insurance typically runs on a “network” model, where each plan restricts which pharmacies and hospitals you can use — switching insurance plans often means switching pharmacies too. That’s the system Mimori ran into, and the language barrier compounded the delay in getting her medication. On the thread, some argued the cost was “nothing” given her husband — pro wrestler Kazuchika Okada’s — earnings, while others pointed out that even wealthy people can lose their savings to medical bills if uninsured or facing serious illness; overall, interest leaned more toward fascination with the system itself than concern over the couple’s finances. Note that the specific contract figures cited for Okada in the thread are not from an official announcement by the couple and remain unverified claims from anonymous posters.
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