Shiori is a little girl, and that’s just not me. I actually started to feel that my real name, Shiori Fujiwara, was too girly. ![]() That persona was more real to me than my real name. ![]() It might have come to me in an instant – a colleague at my agency came up with it in, like, three seconds – but over time I think I became Chiemi Buruzon. “It feels sad and a little lonely to abandon that name. “I actually started to feel that my real name, Shiori Fujiwara, was too girly. It may seem like a small thing but it will in fact be a huge change. Although that’s the moniker by which most fans know her, the performer won’t be able to use it after she leaves her current talent agency and heads off on her solo European adventure. But getting there is the most important thing right now.”īesides her home country, another thing that Fujiwara is planning to leave behind is the name Chiemi Buruzon. Maybe I’ll discover another reason to be in Italy once I actually start living there. They’d learn all about living in a foreign country from the videos. “I think that a lot of people would be very interested in that, especially young people like those who want to study in Europe or just travel through it. Her goal is to start a series of YouTube videos about her life in Italy. That’s not to say Fujiwara is moving abroad without a plan. “It wasn’t exactly love at first sight but I felt, deep inside me, that I want to live there” ![]() There are so many things I want to do in Italy but it’s like having a crush on someone, you know? You don’t really need a reason to want to be near that person.” “Two years ago,” she says, “I went privately to Italy, visiting Rome, Florence and Milan, and it wasn’t exactly love at first sight but I felt, deep inside me, that I want to live there. In short time, “3.5 Billion” was nominated for Japan’s buzzword of the year at the 2017 U-Can Shingo Ryukogo Taisho (2017 U-Can New Words and Buzzword Awards) while Fujiwara herself appeared on the popular Fuji TV series Hito wa Mitame ga 100 Percent (“It’s All About the Looks”) and accumulated millions of Instagram followers.ĭress ¥82,000 by Collini Milano 1937 (A.KA Tokyo)įast forward to the present and the performer is preparing for the next chapter of her life, which will be written outside Japan after she uproots her life and moves to Italy. The combination of Fujiwara’s unbridled confidence and her rejection of female subservience, which still permeates the Japanese workplace, resonated with audiences across Japan. Then, as she reminded everyone that it’s all okay because “there are 3.5 billion men” in the world, her underlings would take off their shirts, exposing the title of the routine written on their backs. ![]() She would compare her character to a flower that refuses to chase the bee, and men to gum that you throw away when it loses its flavor before moving on to a new piece. Performed under the stage name, Chiemi Buruzon, it saw Fujiwara acting as a confident career woman who threw documents around for her eye-candy subordinates to pick up and so on. Indeed, talking to TW at the Italian ambassador’s residence in Tokyo, Fujiwara was as poised, confident and at ease with herself as she was in her 2017 sketch. “If you try to stifle yourself,” she explains, “or push your true self down, then your heart will become sick. It’s been more than three years since the release of Shiori Fujiwara’s “3.5 Billion” hit comedy routine and in that time the popular entertainer hasn’t really changed that much.
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