Star on the rebound

Japanese singer/actress Noriko Sakai showed up in China for the first time after a drug scandal in August 2009, for which she received a three-year suspended sentence. Sakai attended the Fashion Achievement Awards hosted by mainland web portal Sohu.com on Jan 8. At the ceremony, she summarized the last three years as "long and hard", and the life controlled by drugs "very difficult". Sakai, a well-known star in China since the 1990s, says she may work in some Chinese films or TV dramas in the future.