Yuriko Kotani is an England-based Japanese comedian and the BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2015 winner. She was the first Japanese person to win the award. She debuted her solo show, Somosomo, at Edinburgh Fringe in 2019. Kotani's comedy makes fun of the cultural differences between London and her homeland of Japan. She has been noted for delivering her comedy in English, despite Japanese being her first language.
Born and raised in Japan, Kotani moved to the UK in 2005 and began performing stand-up in 2014.
In 2015 Kotani was nominated for a number of awards for her comedy. Most notably, in November 2015 she won the BBC Radio New Comedy Award.

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