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Arts The Japan Times 2008 November

Understanding Ueto, Japan’s reluctant star

by Robert Michael Poole

“I never wished to become an actress or a star who performs on TV,” explains Aya Ueto, the prominent model and actress. “I took this role because my management gave it to me.” The role in question is that of Alice Mitazono, a wealthy hotel heiress who meets a poor widowed father of three named Taro Sato, played by Yusuke Kamiji, in the new Fuji TV drama “The Celebrity and Poor Taro”.