<figure id="attachment_376064" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-376064" style="width: 4495px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="7ea9c381"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/06/d97a40b18856210710d86dd9a31cb7ce.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-376064" class="wp-caption-text">The couple at their engagement press conference on December 6, 1995. The mood was celebratory at the time. &#8230;&#8230; (Dec. 29, &#8217;95 issue)</figcaption></figure>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8216;Another step up the stairway to kanreki!&#8217;</span></p>
<p> Former actress and beautician Towako Kimishima updated her Instagram on June 5, reporting that she had celebrated her 58th birthday. She reported that she was on a business trip to London and France, and posted a picture of her staring at a candlelit whole cake with an old European building in the background. Fans who saw the post praised her, commenting that she was &#8220;too old for any amount of money,&#8221; and that &#8220;Towako-san, who raises the image of beauty and kanreki for Japanese women, is a national treasure.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> In 1986, as Towako Yoshikawa, she became an exclusive model for the women&#8217;s fashion magazine &#8220;JJ&#8221; and gained popularity. She is also known as a collector of luxury brand shoes &#8220;Ferragamo&#8221; and is sometimes called the &#8220;Queen of Ferragamo. She later became an actress, but retired from show business in 1995 when she announced her marriage to fashion designer Akira Kimijima (now renamed Takayuki Kimijima), the bastard son of Ichiro Kimijima, a fashion designer known for his &#8220;KIMIJIMA&#8221; brand.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> However, shortly before that, an illegitimate child born to Akira and another woman was discovered. This triggered a feud between the brothers that also surfaced. In July of the following year, Ichiro passed away suddenly, and an inheritance dispute worth as much as 5 billion yen broke out.</span><span class="strongInContent"> The following July, Ichiro passed away suddenly, and an inheritance dispute worth as much as 5 billion yen broke out. We were hounded by the media day after day,&#8221; said an editor of a fashion magazine.</span></p>
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<p> FRIDAY&#8221; focuses on Towako Kimishima, who has come into the spotlight as a popular actress. The magazine interviewed her and her husband Akira, who had been involved in the Kimishima family turmoil since their engagement press conference, and appeared in the media with them day after day. We would like to look back on those days with images of the two of them.</p>
<h3> I hope we can get through this together.&#8221;</h3>
<p> The two sitting side by side in front of a gold folding screen.</p>
<p> Towako Yoshikawa and Akira Kimishima announced their engagement on December 6, 1995. Mr. Kimishima spoke of the 3.5-carat diamond ring he had given to Kikkawa, saying that it had been in the Kimishima family for generations, worn by his mother, and Kikkawa was all smiles with happiness. Ichiro&#8217;s wife, however, was furious. His eldest son appeared on a wide-ranging TV show and revealed that Akira was not his wife&#8217;s child, but a child born out of wedlock.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" Thanks to all the fuss on the outside."></div>
<p><span class="strongInContent">Two days after the engagement press conference, it was revealed that Akira had an illegitimate child. Two days after the engagement press conference, it was revealed that Akira had an illegitimate child. However, Kikkawa accepted all of this.</span></p>
<p> Once again, the two held a press conference, with Kikkawa saying, &#8220;I accept this fact,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I want to accept this fact and we will get over it together.</span></p>
<p> On December 11, they announced their marriage and retired from show business. The turmoil seemed to have subsided, but Ichiro passed away suddenly the following year. It was discovered that he had named Akira as his successor in his will, and this, coupled with a dispute over his inheritance, which was estimated to be worth 5 billion yen, once again made headlines as &#8220;the battle of the flesh and blood.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> The brand image has deteriorated drastically in less than a year of this turmoil. His eldest son and his wife launched another brand, and their customers moved to that brand, which eventually left the Kimijima brand with debts of approximately 4 billion yen.</span></p>
<p> (A fashion magazine editor) Later, Yoshikawa launched the cosmetics brand &#8220;Felice Twaco Cosme&#8221; in 2005 as Towako Kimijima, and &#8220;FTC,&#8221; which she produced, was a great success. The debt was paid off. In April 2010, Kimishima made a VTR appearance on Fuji Television&#8217;s &#8220;Pop Up!</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Looking back now, at that age, that fuss, that turmoil, that debt&#8230;&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Thanks to the outward turmoil, the inside was like the eye of a typhoon, and it gave us the opportunity to become friends.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> Today, their friendly relationship is posted daily on Kimishima&#8217;s Instagram page. I would like to learn a little from their resilience and their lovemaking, but their appearance seems to have become younger &#8230;&#8230; than it was 29 years ago.</p>
<div data-friday-nextpage-lead=" A collection of youthful images of Towako Kimishima"></div>
<figure id="attachment_376067" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-376067" style="width: 2830px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="4008b615"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/06/4ef39df216ba759baf88aaf015b7da5a.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-376067" class="wp-caption-text">Towako Kimishima when she was called the &#8220;Queen of Ferragamo&#8221; (December 13, 1994 issue)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_376069" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-376069" style="width: 4487px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="faa8ebba"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/06/72eec5023144990dc4b80e31d8a0a6e0.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-376069" class="wp-caption-text"> The two leaving their home two days after Ichiro Kimishima&#8217;s sudden death (August 2, &#8217;96 issue)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_376074" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-376074" style="width: 1184px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="ebef7230"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/06/dbc3b921c8592c6e8a34670f91baa09f.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-376074" class="wp-caption-text"> Towako Kimishima reporting on her 58th birthday (自身のインスタグラム@ftcbeauty.officialより)</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_376075" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-376075" style="width: 1294px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="20432e02"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/06/3313d29d4b21e979d95d249c2e43e1ab.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-376075" class="wp-caption-text"> Two shots with her husband, Takayuki Kimishima (自身のインスタグラム@ftcbeauty.officialより)</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_376077" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-376077" style="width: 1188px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="65c3ff7e"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/06/853a5ca4be2ed40efb1f4c63472a724c.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-376077" class="wp-caption-text"> Her husband, Takayuki Kimishima, with her eldest daughter, Yuuki Kimishima, a former Takarazuka actress (自身のインスタグラム@ftcbeauty.officialより)</figcaption></figure>


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 Towako Kimishima updated her Instagram and reported that she celebrated her 58th birthday. Her youthfulness was flooded with comments of amazement. The following is a look back at the commotion she caused 29 years ago.

Twenty-nine years after the uproar immediately following her engagement press conference in &#8217;95&#8230; Images of Towako Kimishima, a beautiful witch who &#8220;doesn&#8217;t age too well&#8221;.

Twenty-nine years after the uproar immediately following her engagement press conference in ’95… Images of Towako Kimishima, a beautiful witch who “doesn’t age too well”.

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