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Mirei Park

Mirei Park (1974-December 2012) was a Japanese idol-turned-entertainment industrialist who became president of the Dyna Chair talent agency in Osaka. Born with paternal Korean lineage, she struggled in the entertainment industry because of both her ancestry and her marriage to yakuza boss Goro Majima. After her marriage was discovered by her agency, she was forced to retire and have an abortion, confining her to being a behind-the-scenes worker in the entertainment industry. In 2012, she cultivated Haruka Sawamura into a star idol, only to be murdered by her disgruntled employee Kan Ogita before Haruka could win the Princess League.

Biography[]

A photo of Park, Majima, and Katsuya

A photo of Park, Majima, and Katsuya

Mirei Park was born in Japan to a Korean father and a Japanese mother, and she was orphaned at a young age and abused by those that took care of her. The left-handed Park was even forced to write with her right hand by her parents. Park came to admire idols and the way that they were loved and respected, and, seeking to earn the love that she never had growing up, she made her idol debut at the age of 18. By then, she had married the yakuza Goro Majima, who gifted her with an expensive fountain pen that she used as a good luck charm during her performances. Park kept her marriage and her Korean ancestry secret to the public and even her own agency, but, during the short year that Park and Majima were married, she secretly aborted their child, causing Majima to hit her and separate from her, ultimately divorcing her and leaving for Kabukicho. Park's secret marriage was discovered by her agency shortly after, canceling her dream concert at the Tokyo Dome. Park struggled to find work as an idol, and she was eventually forced to retire.

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Park working for Shun Akiyama's test

Park founded the Dyna Chair talent agency in the hopes of living out her failed dream through the girls she managed, working on this goal with help from longtime friend and Osaka Talent president Naoki Katsuya, although the public were led to believe they were fierce rivals. She guided the careers of Mai Sanada and Azusa Osawa, although her coldness alienated them, and they signed with Osaka Talent and formed T-Set. In 2011, however, Park encountered Haruka Sawamura in an Okinawa bookstore and concluded that she would be the perfect person to live out her failed dream. She persuaded Haruka's guardian, the ex-yakuza Kazuma Kiryu, to distance himself from Haruka and the other children of the Morning Glory Orphanage in exchange for financially supporting the orphanage and giving Haruka a great career.

Mirei Park reading her letter

Park reading her letter

During this time, Park secured a ¥300 million loan from Sky Finance owner Shun Akiyama to finance Haruka's career, and she worked as a hostess at Club Elise, did physical work on a construction site, and took loans back from the yakuza to prove herself worthy of the interest-free loan. She then hired several dance instructors to train Haruka, firing every one of them until she signed Kan Ogita, the last available Kansai-based dance instructor. Park blackmailed Haruka into training harder lest she shut down the orphanage, and she oversaw her victory in the first round of the Princess League. However, her mistreatment of Ogita caused Ogita to confront Park; when Park fired him and revealed that she modified his contract's reimbursing clause to where he could no longer be paid, Ogita threw Park to the floor and left the office angered, causing Park to injure her right wrist. Park then persuaded Haruka to seek the aid of the famous dance instructor Christina, who would teach her how to dance before the Princess League finals.

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Park's death

Park soon received a letter from Majima asking to see her. Park and Katsuya leaked the letter's existence to draw out Katsuya's enemies, and, realizing that her death was near now that she was a target, Park wrote a set of final instructions and gifted Haruka her fountain pen, which, unbeknownst to Haruka, opened the safe in her office. Park enjoyed one last night on the town with Haruka before later stumbling upon Ogita searching her office for Majima's letter after being made to do so by Katsuya's enemy Kamon Kanai. Park refused to reveal the letter's location, causing Ogita to repeatedly bash her head on the floor until she died. Ogita was forced to throw her from the roof to make it look like a suicide, and the police declared her death a suicide rather than a murder, even after Shun Akiyama and Haruka found proof indicating that Park had been thrown from the roof.

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