Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Tokyo-born Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, voted Japan's most popular TV personality for five years running, studied opera singing at Tokyo College of Music but became an actress, soon winning a prestigious award for her radio and TV work. She spent 1972 in New York, studying acting and writing *From New York with Love*. She hosted "Tetsuko's Room," Japan's first daily TV talk show, which was awarded the highest TV prize. Devoted to welfare, she brought America's National Theater of the Deaf to …