The lineup for Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi, Monday-Friday 1pm), which will air from April 20th to 24th, has been announced. Singer Miyako Otsuki will be the guest on the 20th, actor Shinnosuke Ikehata on the 21st, talent Nozomi Tsuji on the 22nd, actor Katsumi Takahashi on the 23rd, and actress Hinako Sakurai on the 24th.
Ms. Otsuki will soon be 80 years old. She says she is single and has no family left, having seen both her parents off, but she continues to live in a shared house-like arrangement with two other women of the same age who are also single after losing family or having their children become independent.
Ikehata is in her 70s. She reportedly spends her days suffering from ear problems and injuries from falls, among other physical ailments. Her private life, including her interactions with actress Atsuko Takahata, is revealed one after another, and she reflects that she was "at the mercy of her father."
Ms. Tsuji has five children with her husband, actor Taiyo Sugiura, who is seven years older than her, ranging in age from eight months old to eighteen. She revealed that conceiving their fifth child naturally was difficult, and they underwent fertility treatments. She also spoke about her relationship with her husband, with whom she will celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary next year.
Takahashi has a son in the second year of junior high school and a daughter in the fifth grade of elementary school. He talks about playing catch with his son, who has grown so much that he has surpassed him in height, and about his lively life with his children who are busy with their extracurricular activities. He also expresses his gratitude to his wife, who is 14 years younger than him.
Sakurai made her debut in the entertainment industry in 2014 when she won the grand prize at a contest in her hometown of Okayama while she was in her second year of high school. Even now that she has moved to Tokyo, she is still close with her family and they sometimes get together to go on trips.
