Mori Shinichi talks about his younger brother who died 14 years ago on the July 29th episode of "Tetsuko's Room"

Singer Shinichi Mori appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi) on July 29th. He spoke about his 20 years of living alone and his younger brother who passed away in 2011.

"I eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I make it myself. I make a lot, freeze it, and eat it in the microwave. So I eat the same thing every day. It's what suits my body. You have to do everything yourself." He wakes up around 4am. He tries to go to bed around 9pm, but says, "5 hours of sleep is enough."

When he wakes up, he does some light stretching, then drives to various places, stopping the car and walking for about an hour. "You have to move your body. I realized you have to use your nerves too. I'm lazy, but I try to use them," he says.

His brother passed away in 2011 at the age of 54. He had good grades in Kagoshima, but when he transferred to a school in Tokyo, his grades dropped. "Every time I got home from work, I would encourage him. I would write him a letter telling him to do his best and put it up in his room," he recalled. His brother worked hard and his grades became top class. Apparently, a teacher at school told him, "Your brother is a celebrity, so he can't get into medical school," but he told him, "What are you talking about? No matter what, I'll support you," and encouraged him to do his best. He also arranged for the money for his admission to medical school.

His younger brother had been researching cardiac catheters in the United States. He had been feeling unwell, and was informed of his death while in Hawaii for an event. "He couldn't come back right away, so I asked him to wait a little while, and then I returned to Japan and held the funeral properly," he said. "I don't know what to say. It's the same with my mother's death. It's like everything is being destroyed," he said. "But this is life," he said of his feelings upon his brother's death. Later, Juntendo University's Atsushi Amano, who performed the heart surgery on the former emperor, told Mori's second son, "Your uncle was amazing at cardiac catheterization." Mori said, "(My brother) really did his best," he said.