Nozomi Tsuji turned a 2000 audition into a two-decade run as one of Japan's most visible pop fixtures - first as a Morning Musume teen idol, then as half of the duo W, and finally as a relentlessly public blogger whose domestic life draws as much scrutiny as her music ever did.
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Born June 17, 1987, Tsuji joined Morning Musume at thirteen and quickly became one of the group's most recognizable faces. She spun off into Mini Moni and then W, a duo that kept her in the spotlight through the mid-2000s. Along the way she cycled through shuffle projects - 10-nin Matsuri, Odoru 11, 11Water, H.P. All Stars, Morning Musume Otomegumi - each a snapshot of the Hello! Project machine at work. When the music quieted, she pivoted to blogging and media work, where her everyday posts about marriage and motherhood became their own genre of celebrity. She still performs under her birth name, the stage name now just biography.
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