Career

• April 2004 - Graduates Sendai Vocational School and moves to the capital, hoping to become an actress, where she works part-time at sport shops, supermarkets and video rental stores. During this time she also manages to get small roles in plays and work as an event assistant.
• April 2005 - She started taking acting and sword fighting lessons two or three times a week
• January 11, 2006 - Yuriko opens a weblog of her own in which she chronicles her path towards becoming an idol
  Japanese idol
  In Japanese culture, are media personalities in their teens and early twenties who are considered particularly attractive or cute and who will, for a period ranging from several months to a few years, regularly appear in the mass media, e.g...
  
  .
• February 2006 - Renews the contract for her Tokyo apartment and actively begins attending auditions
• April 2006 - Is awarded the Grand Prize for the A-Team Crystal Pure Audition and effectively enrolls the agency, where she becomes a gravure model. She also makes her first public television appearance.
• Fall 2006 - She releases her first DVD
  DVD
  A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
  
   and appears as a model in the weekly tabloid magazine Shūkanshi
  Shukanshi
  is a Japanese term for any weekly magazine, including controversial weekly tabloid newspapers.As noted by Watanabe and Gamble in the Japan Media Review, the genre is "often described as bizarre blends of various types of U.S...
  
   and also the internet
  Internet
  The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
  
   magazine Fashion Walker.
• January 8, 2007 - She was featured on Tohoku's Broadcasting Company's Evening News TBC show and also interviewed on the Jaikeru Makuson variety
  Variety show
  A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...
  
   program (named after the way the producer's mother said Michael Jackson's
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
   name)
• January 28, 2007 - Yuriko is chosen to star as the heroine of the Kamen Rider Den-O
  Kamen Rider Den-O
  is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. It premiered January 28, 2007 on TV Asahi, and concluded airing on January 20, 2008...
  
   tokusatsu
  Tokusatsu
  is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects ....
  
   series, marking her nation-wide debut as an actress.
• February 3, 2007 - She held a public event to commemorate the release of her second DVD "Face", with an attendance of approximately 220 people, including prominent names in the idol industry.

External links

• Yuriko Shiratori's blog