CELEBRITIES Singer Yuya Takahashi has been arrested for the third time on suspicion of violating the Stimulants Control Law, police said. [MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES Rakugo-ka Shunputei Koasa and his wife, former singer and celebrity Yasuha, have divorced following a 19-year marriage, representatives for the estranged couple said. [MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES A former pop star has been indicted for stealing electric cabling from a construction site in Tokyo in July, police said. [MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES It is rumored that popular singer hitomi will divorce within the next few days, breaking up her 5 year long marriage to a former member of hip-hop group GAS BOYS. The cause for the split is said to be differences in their lifestyles. [TOKYOGRAPH]

CELEBRITIES A former member of the disbanded all-male group “Hikaru Genji” has been arrested for possessing stimulants, police said. [MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES Former Morning Musume member Maki Goto ended her tour on Sunday with a show at Saitama’s Sonic City. During the concert, she revealed that she is graduating from Hello! Project. The news comes barely a week after her younger brother Yuki was arrested for theft. [TOKYOGRAPH]

CELEBRITIES Celebrity Sayaka Aoki has announced her intention to marry soon, her talent agency said Monday. [MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES Actress Yuki Kudo has appealed for the return of items stolen from her during the Wednesday burglary of her parents’ home. [MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES TV personality Ikue Sakakibara had some 60,000 yen in cash and other belongings stolen from her car after leaving a window open when she parked it on a Tokyo street, police said. [MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES Former Morning Musume member, singer Natsumi Abe, 26, caused a traffic accident on Saturday while driving in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward. (1)

CELEBRITIES Television personality Sarina Suzuki is set to get married next spring to reggae artist Tela-C, of the reggae group Infinity16, it was revealed on Tuesday. The two have been living together since 2 years.

CELEBRITIES Children’s clothing company Narumiya International presented on Tuesday a collection designed by Half-Japanese Half-English TV personality Becky.

CELEBRITIES It has been rumored that SMAP member Masahiro Nakai singer Kumi Koda are dating, the Sports Hochi reported last week. (4)

CELEBRITIES Ex-supermodel Sayoko Yamaguchi died from acute pneumonia earlier this month, it was learned on Monday. Yamaguchi was 57 when she died on Aug. 14. [MSN MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher Yu Darvish announced Thursday night he plans to marry actress Saeko at the close of the season. [YOMIURI]

CELEBRITIES Artist Takashi Murakami is a litany of contradictions — trained in classical art, he made his name through otaku pop culture; a fashion icon who rarely wears anything other than scruffy jeans and T-shirts; his work can be seen on cheap trinkets and 500,000 yen handbags. [MSN MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES Japanese pop duo Puffy AmiYumi will be participating in a new international ad campaign by clothing company Gap, it was revealed on Wednesday. Starting on the 30th, posters for the campaign will go up in more than two thousand stores around the world. [TOKYOGRAPH]

CELEBRITIES Superstar couple Ayumi Hamasaki and Tomoya Nagase have split and Shukan Shincho (7/26) suggests the reason could have been because their relationship was not the only thing between them that was aborted. [MSN MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES A woman has been arrested for threatening to kill popular singer Tokiko Kato in letters she sent to the entertainer, police said. [MSN MAINICHI]

CELEBRITIES Utsunomiya Summary Court announced Tuesday it had sentenced restaurant owner and famous impersonator Masami Mita, better known by his stage name Eisaku Yazawa, to pay 400,000 yen in compensation to a comedian colleague for biting off one of his earlobes.