Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi is a Japanese actress television personality World Wide Fund for Nature advisor and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. She joined NHK Broadcasting Theatre Company as the first television actress in 1953. In 1954 she made her debut as the lead actress in the radio drama Yamb Nimb Tomb. In 1976 TV Asahis Tetsukos Room Tetsuko no Heya started airing. This program was recognized by the Guinness World Records 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 11000 episodes in its 48th year. Her autobiographical book TottoChan: The Little Girl at the Window which depicts her childhood became a postWW2 bestseller with over 8 million copies sold in Japan and 25 million copies worldwide.