Hiroshi Kume is a Japanese television and radio presenter, journalist, author, and goodwill ambassador for Germany.
10 Facts About Hiroshi Kume
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Hiroshi Kume is the host of the TBS radio talk show Kume Hiroshi Radio Nandesukedo.
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Hiroshi Kume has three sisters, and he is the youngest child of an engineer working for Japanese National Railways and Toshiba Corporation.
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Hiroshi Kume loved watching radio and TV programs in his early years.
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Hiroshi Kume studied politics and economics at Waseda University from 1963, graduating in 1967.
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In 1978, Hiroshi Kume became the first host of the pop music show The Best Ten with Tetsuko Kuroyanagi.
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Hiroshi Kume was the news anchor on TV Asahi's national evening news program News Station from its start on 7 October 1985 until it ended on 26 March 2004 and was replaced by Hodo Station.
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Hiroshi Kume says that he is against any ruling party, with his belief that the mass media should keep a distance from the ruling party.
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Hiroshi Kume has been critical of Japan's public broadcaster NHK, and he rarely appears on NHK's programs, with a few exceptions that he starred NHK's variety and talk shows by request of Kinichi Hagimoto and Yasushi Akimoto.
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In 2011, it was reported that Hiroshi Kume had donated 200 million yen to an earthquake relief fund following the March 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake Disaster.