Helen Nishikawa

[born ; 6 October 1946] is a female Japanese TV presenter and actress. Although one of her parents was American, Nishikawa does not speak native-level English. She is well known as the wife of the comedian and former politician Kiyoshi Nishikawa and has written two books. Early life and career Helen Sugimoto was born in Kyoto on 6 October 1946 but did not revealed who her father was. After her marriage, she acknowledged that her first name was derived from Helen Keller, a person her father admired. In Japan single-parent women generally have a lower social status, as did entertainers and as an American Japanese shortly after World War II, Sugimoto suffered much bullying in her early age. Sugimoto made her stage debut as a dancer in Yoshimoto Kogyo in 1963. Her purity and eagerness was loved by audiences and she immediately became one of the leading actresses in Yoshimoto New Comedy.