Japan Volleyball Association President Shunichi Kawai will be appearing on Kuroyanagi Tetsuko's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), which will be broadcast at 1:00 p.m. on January 17th.
It's been 35 years since he retired. Recently, young people who don't know about his time as an athlete say to him, "If you're so tall, why didn't you play some sports?" Kuroyanagi bursts into laughter at stories from his playing days. He also talks about the time he didn't wake up from anesthesia during polyp surgery and believed he was dead.
It was his father, who passed away at the age of 90 two years ago, who led him to volleyball. For six years, from junior high school to high school graduation, he spent two hours every night drinking with his father and listening to his lectures. He reveals his gratitude to his father, who studied volleyball himself and accompanied him to practice.
