Christel Takigawa

Takigawa Lardux Christel Masami (滝川 ラルドゥ クリステル 雅美, Takigawa Rarudu Kurisuteru Masami, born 1 October 1977), commonly known as Christel Takigawa (滝川 クリステル, Takigawa Kurisuteru), is a French-Japanese television announcer and news presenter. She is the wife of politician Shinjirō Koizumi.

Christel Takigawa
Born
Masami Christel Takigawa Lardux

(1977-10-01) 1 October 1977
Paris, France
NationalityJapanese
Other namesMasami Christel Koizumi (after marriage)
OccupationNews presenter
Political partyLiberal Democratic
Spouse
(m. 2019)
Children1

Biography

Takigawa Lardux Christel Masami was born in Paris, France, to a Japanese mother and a French father. Her family moved to Japan when she was three years old. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama High School, she attended the College of Literature in Aoyama Gakuin University.

She has worked for Kyodo Television since graduating from university and began her career as a TV announcer initially using her Japanese name, Masami Takigawa. She later changed to her current name, Christel Takigawa. Although she works for Kyodo Television, she appears exclusively on Fuji Television programs.

Takigawa appeared as a newscaster on the Japanese news TV programme FNN News Japan between 2002 and September 2009 and appeared on Shin Hōdō Premier A, between April 2007 and June 2008.

Takigawa gave a presentation to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Buenos Aires in 2013, in English and in French, inviting the IOC to hold the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.[1]

Takigawa announced on 7 August 2019, that she had married Shinjirō Koizumi, the second son of former Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi. She gave birth to a son on 17 January 2020.[2]

Awards and decorations

References

  1. "Christel Takigawa: Looking into Tokyo's Olympic future". Tokyo Weekender. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  2. Takahashi, Ryusei (17 January 2020). "It's a boy! Christel Takigawa, wife of minister Shinjiro Koizumi, gives birth". The JapanTimes. Retrieved 25 August 2020.


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