Erika Sawajiri

Erika Sawajiri to get married at Meiji Shrine on Jan 19

Saturday 03rd January, 04:41 AM JST

TOKYO —

Actress Erika Sawajiri, 22, told reporters outside her Setagaya home on Wednesday that she and hypermedia creator Tsuyoshi Takashiro, 44, will get married at Meiji Shrine on Jan 19. Sawajiri came out to the front of her house around noon wearing sunglasses, oozing the “Erika-sama” image she has become famous for, but was sincere and fielded questions for 15 minutes, and showed off the ring Takashiro designed for her.

She elaborated on how Takashiro proposed to her, saying it was in August last year when they were viewing a total solar eclipse in the mountains of the Altai Republic in Russia. She said: “I went to Turkey to see the solar eclipse with him and a couple of other friends, when I was 19 and we weren’t a couple yet. That was our first vacation together, so being proposed to under an eclipse was very special for me. We’re going to see another one in July from Amami Island in Kagoshima.”

When asked why they decided on a Japanese-style ceremony for the wedding, Sawajiri said: “Well, we are Japanese. And I want to wear a kimono. It won’t be pure white though.” On the reception which will be held in Hawaii, she said: “A stylist friend of mine is designing the dress for me. It won’t be all white; it will have roses on it as well.”

Asked about her attraction to Takashiro, she said: “He’s very much an adult and I’m a bit of a brat, but I don’t feel the age difference. He’s very open-minded and I feel comfortable when I’m with him.”

Sawajiri returned from London on Dec 29 and said she went to the graves of her father who passed away when she was in junior high school and her brother who died in a car accident when she was in high school, and informed them of her upcoming marriage.

She also said she will travel to Barcelona in late January to study graphic design for six months, and will resume acting work after summer.

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presto345 at 03:25 PM JST - 4th January

He’s very much an adult and I’m a bit of a brat, but I don’t feel the age difference. He’s very open-minded and I feel comfortable when I’m with him.

Things will look a bit different 10, 20 years from now. Not that it's any of my business . . .
Loki520 at 04:48 PM JST - 4th January

This is the kind of chick you would love to spend a few hours with. Any more than that would be like having your finger nails torn out.

Bingo. As it is with most "talent"... good for a ride, but nothing more.
bdiego at 06:26 PM JST - 4th January

This is news because she's a famous actress. Get over it, JT.
seesaw at 08:16 PM JST - 4th January

see! at the end of the day, she gets what she wants...:) yaru ne..Erika Sama...
Sammi33 at 09:15 PM JST - 4th January

Erika Sawajiri is indeed a talented actress, but I've heard that backstage she is quite a b*tch. But whatever, if marrying someone only a little younger than her father is what she wants...
Patrick Smash at 01:08 AM JST - 5th January

I already booked Meiji that day for a Guinness and Chips festival, so this is not true.
Pukey2 at 02:03 AM JST - 5th January

is the guy rich or something? i hope for his sake, she won't be in one of her sulky moods again on the wedding day. imagine, the (fake) priest asking her whether she wants to take the guy as her husband during the vows, and she's just standing there, sulking and not saying a word. hope she doesn't turn blond again before the wedding. japanese blond and meiji shrine wedding just doesn't seem to go well together.

oh, hawaii. how original. i bet no other japanese couple thought of that!
noirgaijin at 07:07 AM JST - 5th January

Who cares! Garden tool marries middle age media geek. Same story (gold digger) different people. I give it two years before you have a JT article with her sad picture telling how unhappy a life she was living, but receiving a hefty divorce settlement.
Loki520 at 04:58 PM JST - 5th January

The truly horrifying part of all this is that I had to do a google search to get a decent picture of her. C'mon JT, get it together.

Moderator: Forget Google. We have got it together. The photo with the story is how she looked when she met the media outside her home last Wednesday.
ca1ic0cat at 04:10 AM JST - 6th January

Guess I will be staying far away from Shibuya that day...
roppongidaisuki at 05:59 AM JST - 6th January

I mean she's cute, but no cuter than some of the girls walking down the street in my neighborhood.

And where approximately is that?
Allan911 at 06:34 AM JST - 6th January

haha ! yeah if that's true, I want to live in your street !
rurika at 08:51 AM JST - 6th January

Hardly a gold-digger. Her deceased father was extremely wealthy and I doubt she's ever wanted for anything.
noirgaijin at 03:52 PM JST - 6th January

Merriam-Webster’s gold digger- a person who uses charm to extract money or gifts from others. The term does not limit it’s meaning to just us poor folks.
saborichan at 01:32 PM JST - 8th January

To agree to marriage at 19 is pretty rushed. But don't forget that she lost her brother and father at a formative time... She probably sees something of Daddy in him. Who cares, as long as they're happy, right?