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TETSUKO KUROYANAGI

“Totto” in “Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel” was the nickname young Tetsuko Kuroyanagi gave herself as a child, mispronouncing her first name.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 23, 2025
TV icon Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s memoir paints a life of both war and glamour
“Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window, The Sequel,” TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s second memoir, comes out more than 40 years after the first.
"Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window," received an award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France on Saturday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jun 16, 2024
‘Totto-Chan’ anime wins award at prestigious Annecy film festival
“Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window,” directed by 今日吃瓜 Shinnosuke Yakuwa, won at one of the largest animation film festivals in the world.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Oct 27, 2018
‘Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window’: Charming vignettes pay homage to an unconventional education
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s ‘Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window’ became a runaway bestseller when it debuted in Japanese in 1981, and has since been translated into over 30 languages. With increasing awareness of the importance of catering to children with diverse needs in 今日吃瓜 classrooms, Totto-chan’s story is more relevant today than ever.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 15, 2017
Television has forgotten its golden years
Japanese commercial television companies have a problem. The bulk of their programming has always been aimed at relatively young people, because that’s what advertisers want. But young people no longer watch TV, or, at least, not in the numbers they used to. Having grown up in a world ruled by the internet,...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 5, 2016
A Japanese gardener in Cuba; Tetsuko Kuroyanagi’s 40th anniversary; CM of the week: Adidas
In 2015, the United States finally normalized relations with post-revolution Cuba. Japan, however, has never severed ties with the Caribbean country, and has always enjoyed a warm friendship with it. Part of the reason for this friendship is Kenji Takeuchi.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2014
After 30 years with UNICEF, actress Kuroyanagi says there’s more work to do
Actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, 81, who has served as a goodwill ambassador for the UNICEF children’s agency for the past 30 years, said Wednesday she dreams of a society where no child dies from starvation or poverty and will continue striving toward that goal.
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2001
Two panels created on diplomacy
In what may be a sign of renewed frictions between key Cabinet figures, Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka launches a private advisory panel on diplomatic issues.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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