TV personality Hiroto Kiritani, 76, known as “Mr. Kiritani,” an investor who lives solely on shareholder special benefits, updated his X following his appearance on NTV’s “Monday to Night Fakashi” (every Monday at 10:00 pm), which aired on January 13, and revealed the story behind the program. [Photo] Dirty…cardboard boxes everywhere! Kiritani’ s room, which is hard to walk around. Kiritani attracted a lot of attention on the show, but she told X, “It was Canning Takeyama who discovered me. When I ignored the script and spoke, he said, “I’ve never met such an interesting amateur. The question is why the variety guys couldn’t find you before.” He asked me to join Sun Music (which I declined) and put me on “Laugh It Away” and other programs,” he confessed. He then revealed, “After appearing on ‘Yoru Fukashi,’ I was banned from appearing on other variety shows (because he said that the ratings would drop if I appeared on various shows). Mr. Kiritani, an investor who makes a living 365 days a year from shareholder benefits and dividends, became a professional Go player at the age of 25 and retired at 57. He began investing in stocks in 1984, at the height of the bubble economy, and experienced the ups and downs of the market, including the bursting of the bubble economy, the IT bubble, and the Lehman Shock. His assets are estimated to be over 500 million yen.
