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...Tetsuko Kuroyanagi never stops moving or talking. She is the star of three hit shows on three separate networks; before the day is over she will discuss rape with a young feminist author on one show, play a piano duet of Lady of Spain on another and rehearse a review of the week's Top Ten songs for a third. Every weekday afternoon about 10 million viewers see her on the 45-minute Tetsuko 's Room, Japan's first and most successful daily talk show; each Thursday night 30 million fans tune in to the 60-minute...
...Tetsuko is more than just the most recognizable face in all of Japan. She is a phenomenon, a conspicuous exception to the tradition of servile and "wifely" women on Japanese television. Until Tetsuko, women on the air were invariably hai hai girls, pretty poppets who decorated the chair next to the male host and giggled on cue. But her debut as a talk-show host eleven years ago changed all that. Her quick tongue, candor, spontaneity and irrepressible curiosity were revolutionary and made her a significant role model for ambitious women all across Japan. Says Eiichi Adachi, television critic...
That is the theme of Tetsuko's charming 1981 memoir, Totto-Chan, the Little Girl at the Window, which has sold an extraordinary 6 million copies, making it the bestselling book in Japanese history. The daughter of a father who was a concert violinist and a mother who trained as an opera singer, Tetsuko was thrown out of her rigid grammar school at the age of six because she liked to stand at an open window and chatter with the swallows and street musicians. She subsequently attended an experimental school in Tokyo that allowed her to blossom...
...which has sold 100,000 copies since last May. The title is provocative and eyecatching because it contradicts common sense. I knew it would tickle the readers' curiosity." Few bestsellers have tickled as successfully as Totto-Chan, The Little Girl at the Window-childhood reminiscences of TV Celebrity Tetsuko Kuroyanagi...
Died. Marchioness Tetsuko Togo, 73, relict of Japan's famed Admiral Heihachiro Togo; of pneumonia; in Tokyo...
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