Monday, March 31, 2014

2014.3.31

March 31 is the last day of the fiscal year in Japan.   Today is the last day of 5% consumption tax.  From tomorrow it will be raised to 8%. 

It was fine and very warm.  Mt. Fuji looked very beautiful.

Today the long run variety program of lunch time finished after 32 years.  The title was waratte iitomo ! (笑っていいとも!), meaning "You may laugh."  There were 8,054 episodes in 32 years.  And Tamori (タモリ), a.k.a. Mr. Kazuyoshi Morita (森田一義) has acted as MC for 32 years.  He and the program were acknowledged the records by the Guinness World Record.
The titles were:
Most live TV episodes of a variety show hosted by the same presenter (8001 times)
Longest running live TV variety show (episode) same channel (8054 times)

At night there was a special grand finale program.  There were so many ex-regular members.    I used to watch the program, especially on Sunday when they had a special version of the week.  However these days I have not watched.  The most popular part was telephone shocking.  It is the guest's talk show who was introduced by telephone one day before.  The concept is "friend's friend is a friend, let's make a circle of friends bigger." On Friday two weeks ago, even Japanese Prime Minister appeared as a guest.

What is the longest TV program in your country?

 

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