Abe Natsumi and Yamazaki Ikusaburo welcome a baby boy to their family

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Former Morning Musume member Abe Natsumi (37) has given birth to a baby boy.

This would be the second child for Abe and husband/actor, Yamazaki Ikusaburo (32) and with this joint release, both names were included.

According to the statement, both the baby boy and Abe are healthy, the baby was born safely.

Both Abe and Yamazaki met on the stage back in 2011 for “Arashigaoka” (Wuthering Heights) and married in 2015.  Abe gave birth to her first son back in July 2016.  She made an announcement back in May that she was pregnant.