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Yuriyan Retriever Talks Turning Online Hate Into Prize Money & Plans to Work in the U.S.: Billboard Japan Women in Music Interview

Yuriyan Retriever shared her thoughts on the driving force behind her past and future activities.

Comedian Yuriyan Retriever chatted with writer Rio Hirai for Billboard Japan ’s Women in Music interview series featuring female players in the Japanese entertainment industry. Not only has the 33-year-old entertainer won numerous awards in the highly competitive and male-dominated world of comedy in Japan, she also acts (a lead role in the upcoming Netflix series The Queen of Villains) and raps — she took the Mojave Stage with Awich at this year’s Coachella as one of the guest rappers on “Bad Bi*** Bigaku” — and is set to direct a movie as well. A comedian that I respect who’s been in the business longer than me — his name is Toki of of the duo Fujisaki Market — once told me an epic anecdote about how he woke up one morning to discover he’d lost a ton of money from a bad cryptocurrency investment.

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