Ami Suzuki

Wholesome-looking idol Ami Suzuki was one of Japan's biggest-selling artists in the late '90s, her partnership with songwriter/producer Tetsuya Komuro helping her shift almost nine million singles and albums combined. At the peak of this success in 2000, Suzuki left her label Sony. It was only in late 2004, after a couple of false starts, that Suzuki was able to launch her comeback having spent four years in the J-pop wilderness, a period longer than the shelf life of the average idol. Unlike Ayumi Hamasaki, with whom the Japanese media has tried to build up a rivalry that nev...