The lineup for Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi, Monday to Friday, 1:00 PM), which will air from August 18th to 22nd, has been announced. The guests to be featured on the 18th will be singer Kazuo Funaki, on the 19th producer Rieko Zanma, on the 20th actor Shinya Owada, on the 21st Suwada Al-Mudaffarra, and on the 22nd actor Akiko Nishina.
Whenever Funaki sings in front of his fans, he thinks of his close friend and singer, Teruhiko Saigo, who passed away three years ago at the age of 75. When he heard the news of the death of actress Masako Izumi in July, he couldn't stop crying. He spoke of his loneliness, saying that Izumi was a part of his youth.
Zanma is 75 years old. She has been to many hospitals, but now she is managing her illness well. Her mother passed away 10 years ago at the age of 99. She says she is encouraged by the profound words left behind by her mother, who was the head of the women's division of the Japanese National Railways labor union.
Owada loves stuffed animals and has collected countless of them. When she goes out, she brings her favorites with her and posts photos of them on social media, which has earned her a reputation for being "cute" and "playful."
Suwada is a former Japanese woman who is highly respected in Oman, a country in the Middle East. She acquired Omani citizenship and became an Omani citizen, and in 1990 she founded a private school for Omani children, becoming its principal. She has been married and divorced four times in a country of polygamy!
Nishina is 72 years old. She was hospitalized for cervical cancer 34 years ago and underwent surgery, and has since overcome cancer four times. It has been more than 10 years since her last surgery, but she never misses a checkup. She has a 10-year-old grandson, a boy, who seems to be very attached to her.
