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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Date of Birth: December 26, 1985
Ethnicity: * father – Japanese * mother – Spanish
Yu Shirota is a Japanese actor and singer. He starred in the 2008 Japanese drama series Rookies . Yu is 6′3″, and has a shoe size of 12. Yu is pronounced “you.” He is also known as “U” and “Yuu.”
His father, 城田光男 Mitsuo Shirota, is Japanese. His mother, Pepi Fernández, is Spanish, from Alconchel, Badajoz. His brother is actor and singer Jun Shirota. He spent part of his childhood in Barcelona, Spain.
More pictures of Yu Shirota can be seen here .