It was an amazing scoop, surprising even the tabloids.
Popular celebrity couple Hiromi Go and Yurie Nitani were divorced April 9, 1998, but no one in the press saw it coming. The only way to find out what had happened was to read Go's book, "Daddy," published on the very day of the divorce.
The publishing coup had been meticulously orchestrated by Toru Kenjo, 56, president of publisher Gentosha Inc. He had asked the couple to act as if they were still getting along until the book hit the stores, and to make sure not to leak the split to the media.