[TRANSLATION]Ayu ends her 7-year-old relationship with Nagase
 

Japanese Songstress Ayumi Hamasaki had already broken up with Nagase, the vocallist of TOKIO, a popular JPOP boy band.

According to the local media reports, Ayumi had openly revealed in her personal homepage that the decision of breaking up has already been done by the pair about two or three weeks ago.

"It's quite sudden... I have already broken up with my boyfriend." She said.

At the same age of 28, Ayumi and Nagase met up in 1993 during a drama's shooting. They confirmed their love relationship on September 2001, and near-real news of them getting married was on the air.

They were even spotted by a Japanese tabloid magazine of them holding hands while walking around in Los Angeles on October 2006, hence the magazine predicted their marriage, however Ayumi also stated that both of them had developed some kind of a "family" relationship, much like a brother and a sister.

According to reliable sources, The lovers ended their relationships about 2 or 3 weeks ago, and Ayumi had moved out from Nagase's apartment. Although there were no reasons of the break-up given, speculations ran high about one of them was having a new relationship going on.

Her tone in the online statement was trying hard to stress a peaceful seperation.

"Although we had already broken up, but it has been seven years. we can't just say goodbye to each other and become strangers, we still will keep in touch or having dinner together as usual."

Meanwhile, both artists' agencies had also confirmed the news of the pair's break-up.


Translated by: Isaac Hiew
Source: Malaysian Sin Chew Jit Poh 15/July/2007 Entertainment, page 04.
date: 15th July 2007

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thx for the translation!
so..they had made the decision far before!

thnks for this
well they decided it a long while ago
I'm surprised that we didn't hear about it earlier
(tabloids)

Arigatou for the translation!! ^^

a-ha!

tabloids already working
>ZZZZZZ<

:P

in a way i'm happy, because her career won't be "threatened" by marriage, but then again, she's what 29, and she still isn't married......but oh well, whatever makes her happy

Woow...0_o Thanks for the translation isaac hiew.

Honyakushite,arigatou gozaimashita.

at least she didn't marry and had to divorce...that would have been much worse....

Erm can't say much on this but um.. I hope time heals the wound.

totally agree. :yes

but thanks for the translation!

Thank you for the translation. So it was decided on earlier.. which could truly explain why during the fated live we saw she looked as if she had been crying recently.. Perhaps, Glitter/Fated really is about her relationship with Nagase.. minus the him dying/getting hurt as seen in fated..
but the wedding dress? the her crying in it and just looking completely devastated (aside from the fact that in the PV her lover dies..) it all could be pointing towards their relationship.. They hid it, they didn't get to see much of each other.. and it ended with her feeling like her love had died (symbolic much?) Considering the rumors of her wedding..?


Hmmm

thanks !

I still find this news rather awkward for some reason... lol

Awww.. thanx for this :D But I`m so sorry because they broke up :(

Thanks for the translation, it clears up a lot :)

look at my siggy

thx for news there, isaac hiew
so they first met in1993!! it was 14years ago, thats a very long time of knowing each other, surely very hard for ayu to broke up
btw, i'm wondering who's the one that said to be having a new relationship going on!?

very nice Nippon, lol!!
are u really a DJ!?

Thanks for translate this article. Good, I'm very sad because this broke up. I was still waiting the casory.

Ayu lived in his apartment? That's hard for me to imagine. I always pictured her living in a huge, posh hotels and stuff.