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Miho Nakayama

Japanese singer and actress (1970–2024)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Miho Nakayama was a Japanese singer and actress. She made her debut in the 1985 drama Maido Osawagase Shimasu, where her performance led to instant stardom. Nakayama released her debut single, "C", shortly after, and finished the year with her film debut in the blockbuster Be-Bop High School. She became one of the most popular idols during its "Golden Age" in the 1980s. Nicknamed Miporin (ミポリン), Nakayama occasionally used the pseudonyms Mizuho Kitayama or Issaque when she wrote song lyrics.

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“Miho Nakayama” enters the record as japanese singer and actress (1970–2024). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Miho, Nakayama and Japanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Miho, Nakayama and Japanese.
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Why this record matters

“Miho Nakayama” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Miho, Nakayama and Japanese provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1985.

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This entry incorporates text from “Miho Nakayama” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.