Singer and actress Hikaru Nishida (36) announced during an event in Osaka on Sunday that she is currently four months pregnant and is expected to give birth in early November. This will be her second child.

Nishida married an employee of a trading company in 2002. While staying in the U.S., she had a son in August 2006. Although the couple currently lives in her husband's hometown in the Kansai region, Nishida plans to take a break from work at the end of August to have her second child born in the U.S. as well.