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Tokyo Tower ~Me & My Radio, & sometimes My Mom~
(A semi-autobiography by Fukuyama Masaharu)

TV Drama “Hitotsu Yane no Shita” (「ひとつ屋根の下」Under the Same Roof) - 37.8% maximum viewership
CM songs signed up - 5 compositions within the year *
CMs involved as an actor - 5 CMs within the year
12.31 - Appearance in NHK’s annual “Kohaku Utagassen” (「紅白歌合戦」Red [...]

Tokyo Tower ~Me & My Radio, & sometimes My Mom~
(A semi-autobiography by Fukuyama Masaharu)

1992.01.10   Thursday Morning 3 am
In the legendary radio programme “All Night Nippon”, a new radio host was born.
Since going to Tokyo in the summer of 1987, it had been 5 years. Having fulfilled one dream, this artist is about to achieve another. [...]

Tokyo Tower ~ Me & My Radio, & sometimes My Mom ~
(A semi-autobiography by Fukuyama Masaharu)

1990.03.21
The music industry was booming.
A singles debut by one artist was very quietly put on the market.
“Tsuioku no Ame no Naka” (「追憶の雨の中」 Rains of Recollection)
Since moving to Tokyo in the summer of 1987, it had been 3 years. As for [...]

Tokyo Tower ~ Me & My Radio, & sometimes My Mom ~
(A semi-autobiography by Fukuyama Masaharu)

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Although I had passed the Amuse auditions, their terms of “Annual Salary ¥30,000″ had put me in a spot. Seeing no other choice, my flat-mate and I moved to a cheap apartment house in Mitaka. But every night, [...]

Tokyo Tower ~Me & My Radio, & sometimes My Mom~
(A semi-autobiography by Fukuyama Masaharu)

1998 November
A movie starring Yasuko Tomita (富田靖子) opened to the public. It was a movie about the life and angst of college girls, their youth; love and friendship; and pachinko - “Hon no 5g” (「ほんの５g」). It started with Tomita visiting an apartment [...]

Tokyo Tower ~Me & My Radio, & sometimes My Mom~
(A semi-autobiography by Fukuyama Masaharu)

Continued from here.

Just when I was resigned to spending the rest of my life at the lumber factory, the factory’s ex-Enka singer Nakanishi-san’s words woke me up - “I’ve got to do something!”
Looking at how my friend got scouted in Tokyo: “Do [...]