Japanese singer Ryuchell dead at 27.
Japanese singer Ryuji Higa aka Ryuchell was found dead by their manager at their agency in Tokyo.
Japanese singer, model and activist Ryuji Higa or popularly known from her stage name Ryuchell was found unresponsive by their manager at their agency office in Tokyo. While the police continue to investigate her untimely demise, the cause of death cannot be ascertained. Ryuchell was a prominent LGBTQIA+ face in Japan whose genderless fashion was a phenomenon across the island nation.
According to a report by the Japan Times, Ryuchell was found dead at an agency in Shibuya, Tokyo on Wednesday evening. Several publications have hinted that it’s suicide but the proper police procedure is underway.Ryuchell was
born in Okinawa Prefecture in 1995, following which he shifted to Tokyo after completing High School. He went on to work at several clothing stores at Harajuku neighborhood and he was parallely amassing a huge popularity on social media as a social media influencer.
Ryuchell’s demise comes only a day after his divorced wife Tetsuko Okuhira, also known as Peco, shared a picture of their son celebrating his fifth birthday with a large cake.
The duo met when they were 18, got married in 2016 and two years later had their son. However,
it was in August last year, when they had officially announced that they were taking a divorce since Ryuchell had revealed that they no longer identified as a male, something that led to a major outrage online. In their joint statement, the couple had clarified that they were seperating so they could start a ‘new kind of family’ that’ll help them raise their kid together.
They had said in an interview with Japanese Women’s magazine Very, “Being able to fall in love with a woman allowed me to imagine a life completely different from the one I thought I would have and taught me joys I never knew existed. Somewhere along the way, I began to struggle with the concept of being the “ideal man” and the “ideal husband” and who I really was.’
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