, commonly known as , is a French-Japanese television

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and

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. She is the wife of politician Shinjirō Koizumi.

Biography

Takigawa Lardux Christel Masami was born in

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, France, to a Japanese mother and a French father. Her family moved to Japan when she was three years old. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Aoyama High School, she attended the College of Literature in

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. She has worked for Kyodo Television since graduating from university and began her career as a TV announcer initially using her Japanese name, Masami Takigawa. She later changed to her current name, Christel Takigawa. Although she works for Kyodo Television, she appears exclusively on

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programs. Takigawa appeared as a newscaster on the Japanese news TV programme ''FNN News Japan'' between 2002 and September 2009 and appeared on ''Shin Hōdō Premier A'', between April 2007 and June 2008. Takigawa gave a presentation to the

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(IOC) in

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in 2013, in English and in French, inviting the IOC to hold the Summer Olympic Games in

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. Takigawa announced on 7 August 2019, that she had married Shinjirō Koizumi, the second son of former Prime Minister

Junichirō Koizumi Junichiro Koizumi (; , ''Koizumi Jun'ichirō'' ; born 8 January 1942) is a former Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics in 2009. He is ...

. She gave birth to a son on 17 January 2020.

Awards and decorations

* Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 17 January 2013) * Chevaliers of the

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(France, December 2018)

References

External links

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1977 births Living people Japanese people of French descent Japanese television personalities Fuji News Network personalities Aoyama Gakuin University alumni Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres {{Japan-bio-stub