, born October 31, 1981 in
Niigata, Japan, is a former singer and current radio personality. She was the leader of
Melon Kinenbi
were an all-girl Japanese pop group within Hello! Project. They were formed after they successfully passed the 2nd Morning Musume & Michiyo Heike Imotobun Audition. Melon Kinenbi is the oldest group in the history of Hello! Project not to have ...
, an all-girl
J-pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1 ...
group formerly within
Hello! Project
is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion, a subsidiary of Up-Front Group. The name was initially used as Michiyo Heike and Morning Musume's fan club name in 1999, but has s ...
, until its disbandment in 2010. She is also a former member of Hello! Project's
futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...
club,
Gatas Brilhantes H.P.
was a futsal team representing Hello! Project. The team was founded on September 9, 2003 and was later disbanded on March 7, 2015.
History
On April 23, 2007, nine new members from Mix Gatas were added to the team mainly from Berryz Kobo an ...
History
In August 2010, less than three months after Melon Kinenbi's disbandment, Saito married comedian Jirō Hachimitsu (born Jirō Takano) of duo "Tokyo Dynamite".
On October 15, 2011, it was announced that Hitomi and Tokyo Dynamite's Hachimitsu Jiro have divorced.
After disappearing temporarily from the public eye after Melon Kinenbi's disbandment, Saito returned as a radio personality on FM-Niigata, which she currently remains active as.
Appearances
Photobooks
TV shows
Radio
References
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1981 births
Living people
People from Niigata (city)
Melon Kinenbi members
Japanese idols
Japanese women pop singers
Musicians from Niigata Prefecture
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