Emerging from a victory on the 1981 Star Tanjo! talent show, she entered the Japanese pop scene with a debut single in early 1982 and quickly became a leading idol, securing multiple Oricon number-one hits in 1984 and a million-selling record in 1991 that cemented her status alongside contemporaries such as Seiko Matsuda. After a twelve-year run of Top-Ten singles, she gradually shifted focus to a…
