English translation

Yamaguchi Yuko, born: October 25, 1969, was a very late 1980s idol turned singer-songwriter.

In 1987, she won "Young Magazine Idol Group" audition out of 10,000 contestants, and along with two other winners, they formed an idol trio called "A-Cha". At that time, her role model was Nakayama Miho. The trio made their debut on December 21, 1987, released 2 singles and lasted less than a year. She then made her solo debut on December 10, 1988. 

 

A-Cha

^ members: Yamaguchi Yuko, Suzuki Akiko, Kimura Yumiko 

 

 

About this song

Released on December 10, 1988 as her debut song, this song reached #63 on Oricon chart and sold 8,000 copies.This song was used as insert song for the movie "Be-Bop High school: Koko Yotaro Kanketsu-hen" she starred in. 

 

Her live performances:

^ in "Ohayo, Asahi desu"

 

 

 

In her career, she has released a total of 18 singles (3 of which released during the first path of career as idol) and 8 original albums (2 of which released during her idol days). There's no information about her total sales (all singles + all albums) but her total single sales alone are about 391,000 copies; with most of that came from one song alone, her biggest and only hit song (from her later career) that sold 389,000 copies, while the rest of her songs didn't sell much. She definitely had some sort of acting career, but there's no information about how many movies and dramas exactly she has appeared in. 

 

 

Yamaguchi Yuko in movies:

"Be-Bop High school: Koko Yotaro Kanketsu-hen" (1988)

^ (1:21) Yamaguchi Yuko and Amihama Naoko played the support roles, with (1:31) Tachibana Risa as the main heroine. 

 

"OL Shioki Hito: Ai to Fukunshu no 48-jikan" (1991)

^ VHS exclusive movie

 

 

 

in talk show:

 

 

 

Her idol career lasted until 1990 and then she went to a few years of hiatus. She re-debuted once again on April 21, 1994, now as a singer-songwriter. 

Beside writing and composing most of her own songs, she also wrote and/or composed songs for at least 14 artists, including CoCo and Tahara Toshihiko. 

 

 

 

 

 

...and decades have passed...

 

 

 

 

 

She last released her new single in 2001 and probably has retired since then. There's no recent picture or video that shows what she looks like now.