Saya Ichikawa (市川 紗椰, Ichikawa Saya, born 14 February 1987, in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan)[1] is a Japanese model, tarento, and newscaster. Her original stage name was Saya until 2011. Her father is an American with Native AmericanCherokee blood[2] and her mother is Japanese.[3][4]
Ichikawa is represented by the agency Super Continental.
Biography
Ichikawa was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, and she grew up in Detroit when she was four until thirteen. She had accepted to Columbia University, University of Chicago, and New York University, but she was delayed for one year to focus on her modelling career. Ichikawa was scheduled to return to the United States after one year, but she had enjoyed her career and decided to stay in Japan and later graduated from Waseda University. She had also respected her university entrance, but she said that she was declined to enter Columbia University.[4]
Ichikawa was accepted as an exclusive model for the magazines Vivi and 25ans at the age of sixteen,[5] and she is currently active in a number of fashion magazines. She had modeled in the magazines Sumo Fan, sweet, More, Baila, and Maquia.
In the 4 April 2016 Ichikawa became an MC in the Fuji Television informational news programme Your Time.[6]
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