It's an awful loss to Namie and her fans. May her rest in peace. And thanks for the picture.

Wow.. Namie really looks like her mom, all the same facial features.. ahhh I'm getting so sad looking at her picture!! Poor woman and poor Namie ;.; I've never seen a picture of her mom until now, but I figured her mom must look really Caucasian because Namie has these features as well. When I saw lots of pictures of Namie, I knew she wasn't 100% Japanese~

thanks for the pic! namie & her mom look similar in some ways.
but it's terrible that she was murdered!

i see the resemblance

Wow, i didn't know this about Namie's mom.

It's crazy how artists have a messed up life. I mean, Ayu never saw her father. Namie's mom got murdered? :(

Why did her brother kill his own mom!? That's what I want to know.
And her mom looks so friendly. You can definetly see how much she looks like her mom.

Emiko Taira was killed by her brother-in-law, not her son. Apparently this individual also tried to kill his brother (Namie's step-father). The guy committed suicide afterwards. As I recall it was a family dispute.

and i believe it happened right before a new song or commercial was to debut (we're talking HOURS before). RIP.

As nmskalmn said, it was her brother-in-law that killed her (with a pipe and then ran over her with a car I might add). I heard it was because she didn't approve of his girlfriend and he blamed her for causing their break up.

And it was before the release of RESPECT the POWER OF LOVE.
How ironic.

Awwww that's so depressing... That's Just plain wrong and awful.
I hope Namie's mom R.I.P

i can see the resemblance

pobrecita

Our society is messed up.. anywhere actually.
Nobody's mother or father or any other family member or anybody close to 'em.. deserves to die.

namie's tattoo :

JUN.30 in 1950
my mothers love live with me
Eternally in my heart
R.I.P MAR.17 in 1999

... hmm I guess that's where Namie got her forehead

thanks for the pic

thanks for the that..


so.......... sad................... :(

in fact, when amuro first started her career...she denied that she has non-japanese blood

but after she got really successful and popular..there's more and more rumour on tabloids that she's not 100% asian

and later she admitted she's mixed

Namie is beast!!! LOL no other artist is hip as she is and she is trendsetting again her and ayumi are two of the best japan has to offer other than Gackt i kept telling u guys she is fluent in english but for some reason she hates to speak it?

Gackt can understand English but his English is err .. same with Namie? I could see that her mom understands English, seeing that she's half Italian..
Sometimes, when Japanese artists have English in their songs, I mistake it for Japanese .. 'cos it doesn't even sound English .. it's the accent probably :laugh

Most Japanese can understand a little Japanese but are not taught to speak it, so I see why they do not like to speak English.