Actor Tetsuya Takeda will be appearing on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), which will be broadcast at 1:00 pm on March 10th.
He started Aikido at age 65 and has been practicing it for 10 years. He says it's tough because he trains with junior and senior high school students, who get up immediately after being thrown. He says that Aikido has also changed the way he deals with his wife.
He had a long-standing relationship with actor Toshiyuki Nishida, who passed away last year, both in private and public life. They had been friends since they appeared together on a variety show, and they called each other "Tetsu-yan" and "Nishi-yan." They had the same family structure, "with two daughters," and they were friends with each other's families, going out to eat together. This time, he will be singing Nishida's "Moshimo Piano ga Hireta Nara" in the studio.
