Newly weds: Azuma Chizuru (photo, 43), once considered Japan’s most marriageable woman, has finally tied the knot. She married 41-year old casting coordinator Horikawa Yasushi, with whom she’d been going out for 8 years; TV personality Uehara Sakura (27) announced that she had married apparel company owner Endo Noriaki (31) and also that she was 2 months pregnant.
• New arrivals: Kabuki actor and living national treasure Nakamura Tomijuro became the oldest father in showbiz at the ripe old age of 74 when his wife Masae (41) gave birth to a baby girl; TV personality Nishimura Tomomi (32) and her husband, restauranteur and former “talento” Nishio Takumi (36) had their first child, a baby girl whom they’ve named Sasa.