Freelance newscaster Hitoshi Kusano will appear on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi) on February 10th at 1pm. Even at the age of 80, Kusano says he still works out almost every day with 15kg dumbbells. He joined NHK in 1967 and got married the following year. He had two children, but recalls that he was the domineering husband at home.
His father, born in the Meiji era, was also a patriarchal man, but when Kusano was in junior high school, he would listen to his stories from school every day. His father was a man of strong physique, having won the national championship in shot put while in high school under the old system, and he practiced kendo until his mid-80s. He was a mathematician, and apparently continued to create math problems until he was in his 90s. Kusano says he will never be able to match his father, who excelled in both the arts and sports and lived to be 102 years old.
He also pays attention to his diet and practices the "veggie first" approach, eating vegetables first. His wife is a good cook, and before they got married, she was an assistant to a Chinese cuisine teacher. When she was hospitalized for knee surgery two years ago, his eldest son cooked for her.
