Kyoko Uchida on "Tetsuko's Room" aired on September 5th, looking back on her 20s as a Fuji TV announcer

Freelance announcer Kyoko Uchida appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi), which aired on September 5th. She talked about her work at Fuji TV in her 20s, the reactions of her two middle school-aged sons when they saw footage from that time, and the job she recently started.

Uchida recalls his time in his 20s, saying, "There was no such thing as work style reform at the time." Before the FIFA World Cup, he went on a business trip to Norway, arrived at Narita Airport, transferred to Haneda Airport, went to Awaji Island for an interview, returned to Tokyo that same day, and appeared on an evening TV program. He spent busy days there. He has the impression that he was doing his best just to get through each day and that it was fun, but he hardly remembers the details.

Although he was in good physical and mental health, he sometimes wondered how he would fare as a member of society. He had never been to a bank when the counter was open. At the time, to apply for insurance, he had to go to the bank counter and submit paperwork, but he didn't know how to do it. Even when he felt grateful to people, another job would come up before he could express it. "I felt a little uncomfortable that so many things were being neglected," he recalls.

She has two sons, ages 14 and 12. She says she knows that her mother used to be a sports announcer. She has been able to watch old videos of her sons, and she reveals, "When they see the outfit I wore at the opening ceremony back then, they say, 'That's lame.' I feel a little envious, but they also say, 'That's lame,' in a typical adolescent way."

When she appears on a TV show, her sons "don't watch the whole thing, but they do catch a glimpse or say, 'I watched it today.' But when I ask them, 'What did you think of that comment?' or 'Did you think Mommy was cute today?' they get annoyed."

She studied mindfulness online at the University of Massachusetts and studied for a year and a half at Europe's oldest mindfulness institute, earning her instructor qualifications. Mindfulness meditation is a method of reducing stress through meditation, and is apparently used by athletes around the world. Uchida said she has taught players on the Japanese women's national handball team, and also provides training and programs at companies where employee turnover is rising due to mental health issues.