Yukiko Okada

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Yukiko Okada (岡田有希子 Okada Yukiko, born Kayo Sato 佐藤佳代) (August 22, 1967 – April 8, 1986), known as Yukko to her fans, was a Japanese idol during the 1980s, signed to Pony Canyon records.

Yukiko debuted in April of 1984 with her first single "First Date" for the Sun Music Productions. She won the Japan Record Award for New Artists that year.

She also appeared in a Sci-Fi series called "Kinjirareta Mariko" (The Forbidden Mariko) in which she played the main character Mariko who possessed ESP powers for 12 episodes.

Around 10:00 am April 8, 1986, 18-year-old Okada was found with one wrist slashed in her gas-filled Tokyo apartment. Around two hours later, Okada jumped from the seven-story Sun Music Agency building. The reason for the suicide is still unknown. Her untimely death resulted in many copycat suicides and the christening of the neologism Yukko Syndrome (in reference to copycat suicides) in Japan. [ http://www.idollica.com/okada/OkadaYukiko.html]