Model/talento Rinka has broken up with her boyfriend after a six-year relationship, she painfully revealed on her blog on Monday. She gave no details about her partner's identity, but it has previously been rumored that she was dating Kazuki Otake of comedy group Summers.

Other rumors had claimed she was seeing comedian Tomoharu Shoji, but she denied those reports. Shoji was later romantically linked to Miki Fujimoto, who left Morning Musume after the relationship was discovered.