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Emily Takami（高見エミリー）...Emily Jane Beard...Emily Hatoyama. Nope, I'm not talking about a spy or a scam artist with multiple aliases. For the purposes of this KKP article, though, let's go with Emily Takami, the daughter of Jimmy Beard, an Australian soldier, and Sadako Takami（高見貞子） from Hiroshima. In the late 1960s, she already had a career in her early teens as a cover model for the girls' manga magazine, "Shojo Friend"（少女フレンド）. At the same time, she was acting on TV and in the movies under those first two names (Emily Takami is her birth name).
On both her Wikipedia and J-Wiki profiles, Takami is listed as a former actress and an essayist. And that's because as a recording artist, she only put out one lone single in 1972. "Aoi Mori no Nichiyoubi" (Sunday in the Green Woods) was written by Katsumi Usami（うさみかつみ）and composed by Kunihiko Suzuki（鈴木邦彦）as this very sprightly kayo kyoku for young Emily. With the brass and the bossy percussion along with Takami's sunshine vocals, it comes off as the typical 1970s aidoru tune although with it being the only single that she released, she was probably never categorized as a typical teenybopper singer.
Perhaps one reason that she never put out any more singles was that at the age of 17 in 1973, she became engaged to an older man in his mid-20s named Kunio Hatoyama（鳩山邦夫）who had his eye and mind on politics, eventually taking on a number of portfolios in the governing Cabinet years later including the Minister for Communications and Internal Affairs under Prime Minister Taro Aso in 2008. Takami left show business right after she got married.
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