The lineup for Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi, Monday to Friday 1pm), which will air from April 7th to 11th, has been announced. On the 7th, author Akiko Shimoju will appear, on the 8th actor Wakana Matsumoto, on the 9th singer Tokiko Kato, on the 10th talent Miyadori Utsumi, and on the 11th actor Tatsuya Fujiwara will appear.
Shimoju says she doesn't call her husband "husband" but "partner." They've had separate wallets since they got married, and now they even have separate bedrooms, so they're "living apart in the home." Last year, her husband fell ill and was hospitalized, but she had hidden the fact that he had been to the hospital three times before that with the same symptoms.
This was Matsumoto's first appearance. He was scouted at the age of 15 and made his debut in "Kamen Rider". After that, he entered what he calls a "dark period". After a long period of hard work, he suddenly made it big, and now he says, "It still doesn't feel real."
Kato-san has been a singer for 60 years. He says that the trigger for him to write songs was when his father asked him, "Why don't you write a song yourself?" Now that it's been 80 years since the end of the war, he wants to think about peace once again.
Utsumi is 82 years old. When her husband, Kin'ya Aikawa, passed away at the age of 80 in 2015, she was so devastated that she had no memory of it. She decided to perform at the theater her husband left her, and in the 10 years since then, one of the secrets to her vitality seems to be "chasing" the two men she loves.
Fujiwara will be turning 43 this year. She got married in 2013 and is the father of a child in the second grade of elementary school, but her life has become the complete opposite of when she was single. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, she has taken on the responsibility of cleaning and other household chores, and she confides in him her worries about the difficulties she has had raising her child.
