Award-winning Japanese actress Yuko Takayuchi has committed suicide at her home in Tokyo.
Yuko, 40, is a popular Japanese film and television series actress who also starred in the female Sherlock Holmes series that aired in several countries, including the United States.
Between 2004 and 2007, she won the Best Actress award in Japan for three consecutive years.
Popular actor Taiki Nakebayashi, the husband of Yuko Takayuchi, has said that the body of Yuko, who had committed suicide, was found in a room in his house.
Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, with another actress, Sei Ashina, committing suicide earlier this month.
Earlier in May and July this year, two other actors were reported to have committed suicide.