Linda Yamamoto

Linda Yamamoto was a star of early J-pop, largely responsible for bringing sexy to the Japanese scene -- her exposed bellybutton generated a huge media buzz in the ‘70s. She dabbled in many areas of show business, such as film and modeling, and weathered long periods of relative obscurity, but never really went away, and staged several comebacks over her four-decade-plus career. Yamamoto was born in 1951 in Fukuoka. Her father, an American soldier, died in the Korean war of 1950-1953, and Yamamoto was raised by her Japanese mother. The girl set her sights on the show biz earl...