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144: 432:, and featured Kuroyanagi's discussions with celebrities from various fields, including television, sport and politics. Tetsuko's Room was very successful, and Kuroyanagi started to be referred to as a "phenomenon" in Japan, in contradiction to the image of "servile" and "wifely" women on Japanese television". Statistics show that, by the early 1990s, Kuroyanagi had interviewed over two thousand Japanese and foreign guests. It is acknowledged that her warmness as an interviewer and skilled art of talking is a factor that made the TV program live long. She is also familiar to Japanese audiences with her regular appearance on the television 472: 27: 1130: 1159: 1144: 543:. Kuroyanagi has raised more than $ 20 million for the UNICEF programmes that she has been involved in, through television fund-raising campaigns. She also used the royalties from her bestselling book, Totto-chan, to contribute to UNICEF. Kuroyanagi also participated in the international UNICEF ‘Say Yes for Children’ campaign, along with other celebrities. 384: 566:
For her involvement in media and television entertainment, Kuroyanagi won the Japanese Cultural Broadcasting Award, which is the highest television honour in Japan. Since then, she has been voted 14 times as Japan’s favourite television personality, for the show Tetsuko’s Room.
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In 1997, Kuroyanagi published the book "Totto-chan's Children", which was based on her experience working for as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador from 1984 to 1996. Kuroyanagi is a director of the Japanese branch of the
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in 2011 for having the highest number of broadcasts by the same host. It has been airing on weekdays at noon every week, and as of 2023, it has surpassed 11,000 episodes in its 48th year. Her autobiographical book,
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for charitable works and goodwill missions, helping children who had suffered from disasters and war as well as raising international awareness of the situations of children in poor countries. Her visit to
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In 2000, Kuroyanagi became the first recipient of the Global Leadership for Children Award, which was established by UNICEF in the 10th anniversary of the 1990
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She is also known for her charitable works, and is considered one of the first Japanese celebrities to achieve international recognition. In 2006,
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Broadcasting Theatre Company as the first television actress in 1953. In 1954, she made her debut as the lead actress in the
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industry by her joining Tokyo Hoso Gekidan. Subsequently, she became the first Japanese actress who was contracted to
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works. She founded the Totto Foundation, named for the eponymous and autobiographical protagonist of her book
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In 1984, in recognition of her charitable works, Kuroyanagi was appointed to be a
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on Japanese television. The show was broadcast by the private television channel
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Gender, Language and Culture: A Study of Japanese Television Interview Discourse
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to hold this position. During the late 1980s and the 1990s, she visited many
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in recognition of her two decades of service for the world’s children.
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1981 marked a turning point in her career, as Kuroyanagi published her
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Teaching materials. Archive by Institute for Japanese Studies, at
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UNICEF to give award to actress Kuroyanagi for advocacy work
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Kuroyanagi is known internationally for her charitable and
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Book by Lidia Tanaka. Limited preview at Google Books.
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