# Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

> She has hosted the same television talk show since 1975 - a run Guinness certified as the longest by a single host anywhere. Over 11,000 episodes, every weekday at noon, and Japan still tunes in.

*Japanese actress*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/tetsuko-kuroyanagi

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Actor ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Actors
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1933-08-09
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Kuroyanagi joined NHK Broadcasting Theatre Company in 1953 as its first television actress, then broke through the following year as the lead in the radio drama Yambō Nimbō Tombō. In 1976, TV Asahi launched Tetsuko's Room, a talk program that would become her signature - by 2023 it had aired over 11,000 episodes across 48 years. Her autobiographical book Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, drawn from her childhood, became a post-WW2 bestseller with 8 million copies sold in Japan and 25 million worldwide, adapted twice for television. An advisor to the World Wide Fund for Nature and a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, she built a reputation for charitable work alongside her screen presence. In 2006, Donald Richie called her "the most popular and admired woman in Japan."

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 79.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 15.8 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 23.0 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 81.8 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 85.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #44
- **Total followers across platforms:** 465,000

## Platforms
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/tetsukokuroyanagi/ (@tetsukokuroyanagi)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/tottoclub (@tottoclub)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0961243/ (@nm0961243)
- **WEBSITE**: https://totto-chan.jp/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHTWjXIgA8A_jZxqDasNZTA (@@tetsuko_tv, 465,000 followers)

## Timeline
- **2015** - Person of Cultural Merit
- **2013** - Kikuta Kazuo engeki shō
- **2006** - Kikuchi Kan Prize
- **1958** - The Living Sea
- **1933** - Born

## Sources
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