Emi Watanabe
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 Japan |
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August 27, 1959 (1959-08-27) (age 52) |
| Height |
152 centimetres (4.99 ft) |
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Emi Kathleen Watanabe (渡部 絵美, Watanabe Emi?, born August 27, 1959) is a Japanese figure skater of Filipino ancestry.[1] Her father is Japanese, and mother is Filipino. She won eight consecutive Japanese championships and earned the first World Championship medal (bronze) in ladies' singles for Japan in 1979. She graduated from Golden Valley High School[disambiguation needed 
]. After the retirement, she went into show business and helped to popularize figure skating in Japan while herself becoming a national celebrity through her numerous appearances on television and in magazines and newspapers. However, after 1990s, She came to be known as 'a troublemaker'. She wrote muckraking books about some trouble with some TV personalities, skaters and Japanese winter sports tycoon Yoshiaki Tsutsumi[2]. She also often appears reality television series which follows overweight celebrities as they try to lose weight[3].
She ran for The House of Councilors election in 2001 from Liberal League, but lost[4].
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Watanabe, Emi |
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August 27, 1959 |
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]. After the retirement, she went into show business and helped to popularize figure skating in Japan while herself becoming a national celebrity through her numerous appearances on television and in magazines and newspapers. However, after 1990s, She came to be known as 'a troublemaker'. She wrote muckraking books about some trouble with some TV personalities, skaters and Japanese winter sports tycoon Yoshiaki Tsutsumi[2]. She also often appears reality television series which follows overweight celebrities as they try to lose weight[3].
