Utada Hikaru and Kiriya Kazuaki Divorce
 

They've both written messages on her "Message from Utada" page...

http://www.u3music.com/message/index...030312006j.xml

Wow. What a shock. That came out of nowhere.

Kaz divorced Hikki
 

2007.3.2.Kazaki Kiriya divorced Hikaru Utada. I remember that she did not wear a ring in Music Station. :( :(

http://www.u3music.com/message/index.php?m=1
http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/hikki/s...ki_staff_j.php

http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/entertain...OHT1T00130.htm
http://www.sanspo.com/sokuho/0303sokuho026.html
http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainm...070303027.html
http://www.nikkansports.com/entertai...03-164518.html

sorry,I have put up the same thread in the same time.:thud

OH MY...

zomg, poor Utada. T-T

Edit: Thanks for the Trans.


I WANNA CRY. XD I wanna go run to japan and hug Utada. o.o

ohh, did'nt see that coming.

So, Kaz broke it off.. or Hikki?

Flavor of Life seems VERY.. related to this topic...

Well that was random...

People just don't get divorced suddenly. I'm sure that there have been problems for a while. They both knew.

It could very well have influenced Flavor of Life.

I feel bad for Hikki though, she just seems like, the sweetest person ever. I wonder what went wrong exactly. But, I mean, it's not all only one person's fault so, perhaps this is best.

I wonder how well her PVs/Covers will look now :P

:O~~ omg.

How unfortunate, but I can't say that I'm surprised.

This is sad..:( hope hikki is ok.

Flavor of life Ballad ver.(HEY HEY HEY live )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EB33Y7Hccw

I associate it with these two pieces of singles from album "ULTRA BLUE".

I wish the best for both of them. I'm a bit shocked, but although I wished the best for their marriage, it always seemed kinda distant. Hope they're both well though.

She mentions that their vision of the future and of their marriage just didn't match up anymore, and also that their constant traveling and long distance didn't help matters.

I AM IN TOTAL DENIAL RIGHT NOW....T_T I can not believe this..if Hikki and Kiriya can't do it, who can?!? This has got the most heartbreaking thing for hikki and kiriya right now.....I hope those two can settle their differences after the divorce is finalized, if hasn't been already. Hikki and Kiriya both need a big hug right now!T_T

That's so sad... ;_;

Eh, saw it coming, honestly. (And not just because Kiriya didn't seem to have been involved lately)

They were probably having the usual celebrity problems...like never seeing each other, and just in general having more room to grow apart. Sadly, it happens. At least they are able to realize that it is not working, and apparently are separating civily. That's really the best you can do. (And they said they had different visions...maybe one wanted to have children and the other didn't...who can say. It's all speculation.)

oh dear... poor hikki.. hope she's alright..

holy cow!!!

this came so out of the BLUE...XDD

omg poor hikki
but i must say "i told you" , thats what happends when you get married too young

anywho good luck for both of em

So in Passion what does that "The person I loved long ago
Is to have a child in winter " supposed to mean, she's having a kid?

Anywho, Be My Last, that's WEIRD!!!! 'cause during the making of, they seemed PERFECTLY fine, they even hugged to show something...

Yet lyrics of days of even Exodus were pretty susceptible "Arguments that have no meaning, this just the way I am, I really want to tell you something but I can't..." But she can't?

Well, lets hope that since they aren't friends, and they aren't lovers, but inbetween, they still work together. And rekindle past mistakes

:scry.....Your comment made even more obvious that something was wrong.....:scry

Wow... That's a surprise... Didn't see this coming.

LOL I was kinda expecting this would happen sooner or later. :laugh Oh well Hikki, better to divorce earlier than to carry on a marriage just for the sake of it.

And for real guys, you aren't really THAT sad right? I mean, Utada lives far away from us and she doesn't know us, we can feel a little for her but too get so extremely saddened is a bit hmmm extreme, isn't it? :shrug I'd understand if it had been something more tragic, but, a divorce!? You don't even know how their relationship was going on... Divorces can sometimes be a good thing, rather than a bad one.

Ah... Finally, the time has come, huh. I'm not surprised at all. Really!

I always kinda got this feeling that Utada is having problem with him ever since Exdous's era after when i saw You Make Me Want To Be A Man interview. In the interview, she was very bothered (I think!) and i keep seeing her holding back her tears. But you know Utada never been the type of person that would cry in front of the camera, not even during a concert, right?:(

She'll be better off without him anyway. Now, more reason for Utada to release a dark album! Heehee... :P

Exactly! Honestly, I'm not too concerned. I'm not involved in her life in any capacity so the only thing I can think is "Oh, that's too bad," and then move on. Actually, I didn't think it would last. I'm basing this opinion solely on the general facts: she was very young when she got married and it was a celebrity pairing. Those kinds of relationships get a lot of attention so it's hard to keep them intact.

It's kind of like Hikki's mom being caught with the crack cash..

I don't know why but I kinda sensed some kind of weird tension between them in the making of videos of her PVs. :/ It's a pity really, I guess we could have known something was up, with Flavor of Life lacking a PV. :/

Aww, I really wanted them to stay together. :(

It was kinda expected. Plus this divorce oddly was "conveniently" announced close to the release of her single. Makes me a little suspicious.

omg, that is so sad to hear. totally not expected.

I'm sad for her but things happen :shrug

I wonder the same D: but I'm also sad for her, she seems to be a good person

I'm sad for her, but better to divorce rather than live a loveless marriage.

And to be honest, I'm not surprised. Aside from the usual celebrity marriage/divorce stuff, they also have a pretty big age gap, and she was pretty young when she married, and she could have change when she got older, and the change just doesn't help her marriage.

YES!!! A CHANCE FOR ME!

Just hope she doesn't shave her hair off.

I haven't been following her career lately so this news was a complete surprise to me. I hope will have a friendly divorce.

Good for her.

These things are painful, but how old is she, like in her twenties? The idea that she'd find someone who satisfies her both emotionally and sexually for the rest of her life at such a young age is pure naivety.

That, plus the whole machine of celebrity and idol obsession being what it is, and having to distance herself personally from herself as she is perceived in the music - not to mention long distance and busy schedules - probably brought this about.

Let's hope she keeps her ground through this; these things are never easy.

^She's 24 I think. Maybe it's because of the age difference...

Don't worry she is not drugged yet ;)

I'm shocked but not sad. As ImpactBreaker said, it's better for Hikki and her husband to divorce rather than just carry it out and pretend they still love each other. Some people are being a bit melodramatic about this. It's not as if Hikki's husband died. They just got a divorce; it was probably for the best.

That came out of nowhere. Kind of disappointing, but I guess it's for the best.

You guys were actually surprised about this? I'm surprised it even lasted this long.

That's sad.

I really wish them both the best.

I'm so surprised. I thought they would last.

That's too bad..but they are humans after all...:O

erm, expected?
mayb coz of the time prob n their jobs...
sry for them... hope every1's fine... ^^"

I have to say it is a bit of surprise to me... not to even mention it was out of nowhere. You could think that her being so young and him being older, when they were getting married suddenly, it won't last long, but then it wasn't so obvious as it is in many cases of Hollywood people getting together...

It was not their ages that was the reason!

It was basically like, they felt stuck together by the marriage, but they weren't really doing anything as of late.

Their feelings towards marriage were probably the same, with "being with the one who makes you happy for the rest of your life." They probably just didn't see that in each other recently. I support their decision, as staying together would've lead to a divorce sooner or later. Even worse if she was PREGNANT or already had a kid.

i thought they was a lovey dopey couple...
is hikki has a child from him?

No, she doesn't.

story was picked up by the AP:
Japanese pop star Hikaru Utada divorces music video director

Ah, I thought she and her husband were 15 years apart o.o?

Anyway, I'm also surprised the marriage lasted this long as well. Really people, you shouldn't be so shocked considering two important factors =P 1) celebrity marriage 2) age difference & Hikaru getting married so young. And I'm not saying that it's impossible for such marriages to work out, they just hardly ever do.

aww, that's a bummer. But at least it doesn't seem like a messy, bitter divorce...
they both seem to still love each other as people. :)

I'm quite shocked at this.. She did say they lacked communication.. :/

The lyrics do seem to have a big connection to this.

^I don't know if their distance from each other was extreme or anything but what ever to marriage counseling?!?

I am sorry it happened but being recently divorced myself I can honestly say it was probably for the best.

^Ah that sucks, I hope everything is ok :(

I think that if Utada's marriage was really going sour, it's better that they decided to end it now and not in say 10 years time by which time they would both be really bitter about it. She is young and can recover, so in a way im glad it ended now.

True, but I still think she would've had great sales without this news. Still, as you said, it is a bit convenient.

It's sad news but I concur with others that it's better to end it now than to just live in an unhappy marriage. Judging by the notes left on her HP, it seems that they still care about each other but they couldn't make the marriage work.

According to news sources, it's not a problem of age difference, they simply didn't communicate much since neither of them is very talkative. Different goals also add to stress on a marriage.

Yeah.

I think they were fine with the age thing.. it was just that they were talking...

I mean imagine if you and your girlfriend or boyfriend barely exchanged words.. maybe once every few weeks..

I think you'd probably be like: "This isn't working!"

Her lyrics lately had some kind of twist in it ... I didn't give it so much thoughts about it but now .... I wish them both the best and maybe they can stay friends like my parents do it. Good luck for the future. xoxox partino

Here is another article concerning Utada Hikaru's divorce, but it includes another bit of information. It looks like her parents are also getting a divorce... for the 7th time!

Singer Utada Hikaru (24) and filmmaker Kiriya Kazuaki (38) have divorced. And it was revealed that her parents also divorced yet again last year - for the seventh time! Just as her marriage to Kiriya was announced on Hikki's website four and a half years ago, on Saturday she used the same website to reveal that they had divorced the previous day. She thanked fans fopr their support and apologized for the sudden announcement. She cited different views of the future and a lack of communication due to her business international work schedule as the main reasons for the split. Kiriya posted his message on the same site, an indicator of the one-sided nature of their respective levels of success and fame. The two met in 2000 during the design of the sleeve for Hikki's 7th single, "Can You Keep a Secret?" Two years later, she underwent surgery for ovarian cancer and just five months later they were married. They worked together in several different capacities, one being Utada's title song for "Casshern", Kiriya's 2004 debut as a movie director. He also supported her during her attempt the same year to break into the U.S. market. According to a friend of the couple, neither of them are particularly sociable or talkative types and so communication was a problem for them. Utada, whose parents have divorced and re-married each other a ridiculous seven times since 1981, was looking to him as an older man who could support her emotionally. She made no mention of the split during her live appearance on Friday's "Music Station", where she performed her new single "Flavor of Life". Bittersweet is probably the flavor one would use in English to refer to her life right now, though she referred to it as being like "green pepper tempura".

You can find the article here. It's a day old.
http://www.japan-zone.com/news/archives/2007_03.shtml

another article
 

They both seem calm and not too stressed about it. They also wish each other all the best. I don't think all of that is just to make it look like everything's OK, I do believe that they're both fine and there's no major harm done with the divorce.

i myself am glad this has happened, she should find someone more her age ...-_-***

other than that, yeah, that does suck having to go throught that.:thud

i am surprised. it comes so suddenly. from the messages that the couple left, it seems it is the guy who initiated the divorce, as he said he could not emotionally depend on hikki anymore. while hikki gives an external reason for divorce (working internationally)