Noriko Matsumoto

is a Japanese singer and television personality. After winning the Grand Prize at the 1984 Miss Seventeen Contest, she debuted as an idol singer with her song "" and had four more singles chart in the Oricon Singles Chart Top 30 and a Japan Record Awards New Artist Award, and she was a regular cast member at the variety show . She went on a career break after her 1992 marriage to baseball player Kenji Tomashino, before making a comeback in the early-2010s.

Biography Noriko Matsumoto was born on 30 January 1968 in Mitaka, Tokyo. Her real given name is said to have the meaning of . In 1987, she joined the Fuji TV variety show as a regular cast member. On 29 April 2018, she made her first gravure appearance in twenty years in the magazine . In December 2019, she made her first radio appearance in 26 years on Nippon Cultural Broadcasting's , appearing alongside her husband.

She and her husband have three sons.

Discography Title Year Details Peak chart positions Sales JPN JPNHot "" 1985 Released: 21 March 1985 28 — — "Aoi Kaze no Beachside" 1985 Released: 21 June 1985 30 — — "Sayonara to Iwarete" 1985 Released: 21 September 1985 17 — — "Nijiiro Scandal" 1986 Released: 26 February 1986 28 — — "No Wonder" 1986 Released: 21 May 1986 29 — — "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that region.