Noriko Sakai’s love triangle with best friend and husband

The media has already reported Noriko Sakai and her husband’s abuse of stimulants at their home in Minato Ward as well as their beach house in Katsuura, Chiba. What hasn’t been publicized is the “sister” who was a frequent visitor at both locations.

Locals in Katsuura describe this “sister” as longhaired and petite, with a resemblance to Sakai, and that the 10-year-old son of the couple also seems quite attached to her. A restaurant employee who made deliveries to the beach house comments, “Sakai introduced this woman to me as her younger sister. She appeared to be in her late 20s and was on very friendly terms with her husband (Yuichi Takaso). When Sakai was away, the two often dined at our restaurant.”

A certain TV producer introduced the woman, identified as M, to Sakai some time in 2000. The two became close friends, and ever since, she has been a “family member,” always with the couple at clubs and various events.

While Sakai was busy selling herself as a “mamadoru” (mommy idol), her husband, a self-professed surfer, had plenty of time to hang out with M who is unemployed. A friend of Sakai recalls a bizarre scene at the couple’s home after clubbing all night. M sat on Takaso’s lap, cheek to cheek, while Sakai started preparing breakfast. Sakai laughed and said M was like family, so her behavior wasn’t a big deal.

Takaso’s acquaintance provided a similar incident from two years ago at a bar near Sakai’s home. Introducing M and Takaso to his group of friends, he explained that the young woman was living with Sakai and Takaso, which the latter neither affirmed nor denied. Takaso said jokingly, “We’re all happy together so it’s fine.”

The same acquaintance also commented, “The family goes on vacation with her, can you imagine that? When Sakai is away on business, this woman looks after their son. The three even take a bath together. She’s practically a mother to the boy. I guess she is Takaso’s lover, but this relationship is a bit too weird.”

A different perspective comes from a friend of Sakai who has known the TV idol since her childhood in Fukuoka. “I went to Nori-P’s home early in the morning after partying with her. M and Takaso were sitting side by side, their eyes looking glazed. Nori-P turned on trance music, cranked up the volume and started dancing on her own while snorting some white powder. She offered me some, but I said no way and told her to chill out.”

It was then that Sakai slumped down and mumbled about how much longer it was going to continue. “She was obviously referring to the life with her husband and his lover. I had no words to say.”

Indeed, Sakai had counted on M to take care of her son owing to her work schedule, and it is rumored that the boy was in this woman’s care during the six days Sakai disappeared after her husband’s arrest. In response to Shukan Post’s interview, however, M insisted she had nothing to do with Sakai’s son and denied that she was Takaso’s lover. But police investigators are currently looking into all parties who were involved with Sakai or aided her while she was on the run.

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Midnightpromise at 03:25 PM JST - 27th August

An internet surfer perhaps?
timorborder at 03:38 PM JST - 27th August

Character assassination by the numbers, and rightly so. If only 1% of all the crxp written about this woman is true, she will be digging herself out of this hole for the rest of her life.
guuzendesu at 10:39 PM JST - 27th August

A spouse not being around is not a reason to have an extramarital affair. It's also unnatural to feel that it's fine for someone else to have body parts inside your lover.

If they're not around? That's what hands and batteries are for. Not strangers. Intimacy of that sort is what should naturally follow intimate emotions, not vice-versa. If your spouse is experiencing those physical things with another, then the emotional things could easily follow. Then, you may find out your spouse is quickly deciding no longer to be your spouse, and they no longer need you around.

A person of low intelligence will argue about being "man enough to keep her." Well, sharing her isn't "keeping" her in the first place, and she will know that too, regardless of what she says. If you "keep her" then it would only be because not leaving you is more convenient.
BuddhismTech at 02:55 AM JST - 28th August

Did Sakai's husband urge Sakai to use amphetamines to relieve her fatigue? Let hope that this is true. But it is so hard to choose which one, Takaso or Sakai, is more honest and less willing to save her or his face for her or his own benefit. Takaso has advantage over Sakai because he did not resist the arrest and cooperated. Sakai ran away so she had more time to straighten out the mess before turning herself in.
ratpack at 09:57 AM JST - 28th August

And the DVD will be released when????
funkymofo at 12:10 PM JST - 28th August

She's a witch, she's a witch! Burn 'er!!
corinnajune at 02:49 PM JST - 28th August

It's also unnatural to feel that it's fine for someone else to have body parts inside your lover

unnatural for most people perhaps, but apparently there are many people very happy in both 'open' and 'polyamorous' relationships. and the relationship between these three people seems to qualify as a polyamorous one.

i don't see anything wrong with it, either, so long as all parties are happy with the relationship. who you love really is no one's business.

but that doesn't, of course, excuse the rampant drug use with a child around who needed to be cared for.
womanforwomen at 03:45 PM JST - 28th August

love triangle, best friend, husband, mother, the relationship and some trying to argue that it is 'not unnatural' are all disgusting here. Get real.

Wonder what the 10 year old boy went through when these disgusting beings were together.
funkymofo at 05:41 PM JST - 28th August

love triangle, best friend, husband, mother, the relationship and some trying to argue that it is 'not unnatural' are all disgusting here. Get real.

What's disgusting is the relentless schadenfreude, voyeurism and judging of other people and their lives. You don't know them, you get your information about their lives from tabloid articles and hysterical 'wide' shows and you judge that they're bad people because their choices apparently don't fit within your value system. Just say it- they don't do what I do so they're bad.

Wonder what the 10 year old boy went through when these disgusting beings were together.

Don't worry, I'm sure there'll be some lascivious articles for you to delight in over the next few days.

Get real indeed.
womanforwomen at 07:05 PM JST - 28th August

Just say it- they don't do what I do so they're bad.

They don't do what majority of human beings do. And just because some people fancy some wierd behavior and lifestyle does not mean that everyone should accept that. Especially when there was a child involved in this 'triangle' these people should have been moderate.

My posts even before Sakai surrendered should give you the clue that I am not feeding on JT or TV alone.
funkymofo at 07:32 PM JST - 28th August

They don't do what majority of human beings do.

So they must be bad, huh?!

Who decides what's weird and what's moderate? You? Unless the child is harmed, and though I've not been following this pathetic drama with the same dedication and missionary zeal you obviously have, that doesn't seem to be the case. Calling them disgusting is a value judgment that you are not qualified to make on the basis of the skewed and hysterical mass media feeding frenzy that's occurring.
BuddhismTech at 03:04 AM JST - 30th August

@womanforwomen

"Especially when there was a child involved in this 'triangle' these people should have been moderate."

Answer:

Are you sure? Are you referring to all families in Japan? Some months ago, I watched one of Japan's comedy TV series on Netflix's instant play. It showed three naked mannequins of different sizes in a Japanese tub. They depicted a white husband, white wife (blonde and blue eyes), and white young son (ten years old?). What a weird Japanese humor.
BuddhismTech at 03:41 AM JST - 30th August

@sageb1

I think that more than 1 million Japanese tried and used amphetamine.
anon99 at 04:37 PM JST - 9th September

Woe, didn't know there's a whole Shukan Post section on JT... wondering what connections JT and Shogakukan have... Anyway, good digest as I don't have the Sep 4 issue

She's a witch, she's a witch! Burn 'er!!

Burn her? "DROP her" may be a better description... Given this messy situation, I suspect there could be a bounty issued inside those underworld (especially the ones she was in), for the dispatching of her, because her notoriety might be deeply affecting those circles, jeopadizing their underground activities etc. etc.

She's caught between the black and the white. Whatever the verdict, she might be unable to make it in one piece eventually. Catch the drift?
oberst at 09:42 PM JST - 11th September

threesome !! what a lucky surfer dude