- Akiko Wada
nihongo|Akiko "Akko" Wada|和田 アキ子|"Wada Akiko", birth name: Kim Bok-Ja (Korean: 김복자,
Hanja : 金福子) "Kim" is family name. BornApril 10 ,1950 , is a femaleJapan ese singer and television performer ofKorea n ancestry, originally hailing fromHigashinari-ku, Osaka . Like manyZainichi Koreans , she had a legal Korean name and a name for everyday use, which was Japanicized nihongo|Fukuko Kaneumi|金海福子|"Kaneumi Fukuko". Due to her above-average height (174 cm or 5'8.5"), she is nicknamed "jotei", meaning "empress".She is signed to the
Horipuro entertainment agency.She voice acted as Koopa in , the first time he had been voiced.
She also performed with the music group
m-flo on the song "HEY!" on their Beat Space Nine album which was released in 2005.Along with fellow Japanese entertainers
Takeshi Kitano ,Ken Shimura , andNobuyoshi Kuwano , she severely criticized TV starMasashi Tashiro after his arrest forvoyeurism .She has also voiced Marge Simpson in the Japanese version of
The Simpsons .External links
* [http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/wada_akiko.shtml japan-zone.com article]
* [http://www.akofc.com/ Official website] ja icon
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