Former “Shibukitai” member and TV personality Toshikazu Nunokawa (60) appeared as a guest on TV Asahi’s “Tetsuko’s Room” (Monday through Friday at 1:00 pm) on August 8. He revealed a surprising fact about his life after death. Toshikazu Nunokawa showed his first son, Hayata, and his ex-wife, Kaori Tsuchiya, “for the first time in several years. Their first son, actor Hayata Nunokawa, was born last year. Her eldest daughter is Momoka Nunokawa, a model and mother of two. When host Tetsuko Kuroyanagi introduced Hu-kun as having looked for an apartment to renew his life on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Nunokawa replied, “Yes. I thought about where to live, but I wanted to be near my grandchildren, so I went to a real estate agency to look for a place near my daughter’s house. You went to a real estate agent and had him look for you,” he recalled. When he received a call that they had found a place, he was surprised to find that his ex-wife lived in the same apartment. When she had grandchildren, she moved closer to her daughter’s house, too,” he said, “so I thought, what should I do? I checked with Tsuchiya-san a little bit because it was the same apartment, and he said, well, it’s okay because I can take care of the dog and stuff, so I decided to go there,” he recalled. When asked for the room number, he was surprised to find out that it was next door to Tsuchiya’s room. Kuroyanagi continued, “Even though we had broken up,” to which Kuroyanagi replied, “Yes, that’s right. But I didn’t expect that. There are several hundred households in the building. I didn’t expect the room next door to be empty. Everyone in the family was surprised to find out that it was there. When Kuroyanagi said, “I knew it was some kind of a coincidence,” Nunokawa said, “That’s right, isn’t it? In the end, he said, “I was told that I could check it out. I’m allowed to live there,” he said with a smile. When Kuroyanagi said, “I heard that today is the first time you are telling people that you are living next door to each other,” Nunokawa nodded and said, “Yes,” and looked embarrassed, “It hasn’t been a secret until now. Nunokawa nodded and said, “Well, I haven’t been very secretive about it,” he added, looking embarrassed. I made some things that I liked, such as bean-curd soup with plum and shiso flavoring, and tail soup. The other day she also made steamed clams with sake. She lives with her daughter,” he said. “But I also eat the tuna I get from her, or I eat the good tuna I get, or I eat corn, and so on. The other day, I went to borrow some red ginger. I made yakisoba noodles and asked, “Do you have any red ginger? I asked if they had any red ginger,” and “I also went to borrow some shichimi (seven spice flavors),” he said, smiling. Tsuchiya himself also said, “We have each other’s keys. We have a mysterious relationship,” he said smiling. Then, Tsuchiya said that he had a message for Kuroyanagi. “This time,” he said, “I’ve been keeping this a secret until now, or rather, if I move in next door, my friends will do the same, but will we get back together? I was asked by everyone whether I was going to get married again, or remarry. I said, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I told Tetsuya-san that I would tell him in Tetsuko’s Room that I would not get back together with him. Also, to everyone in the country and to the mass media, we will not get back together,” he added, repeating Tsuchiya’s words, “It’s one-sided on their part. When Kuroyanagi confirmed, “You have no intention of getting back together?” Nunokawa replied, “Well, I don’t really want to get back together either. Still, he declared that living next door “seems to be surprisingly okay. The other day, he said that he, Mitsuchiya, and his daughter were able to take care of their dog, Pearl, which they had kept since the child was a child. It was in the middle of the night. I think Pearl was probably guiding me to move next door because I was going to be lonely by myself after she died.
