April 5, 1986 Akiyuki Nosaka’s “barbaric courage” against Tonnerzu

April 8, 1986 is the anniversary of the death of idol singer Yukiko Okada. The time of death was 12:15 pm. Forty minutes later, she appeared in the ending of “Laugh It Up! (Fuji Television Network), the host of the show, Tamori, announced that “Okada Yukiko has just passed away,” and Studio Alta was in an uproar. This was actually the first news.

It was Tuesday, and “Tunnels’ All Night Nippon” was on from 1:00 am. As a junior high school student, I had occasionally listened to this program, which had started in October of the previous year, and I tuned in without hesitation on that day. I wanted to know how the Tonneruzu had reacted to the death of Okada Yukiko, and at the 1:00 a.m. time signal, Ishibashi Takaaki of Tonneruzu said as soon as he opened his mouth, “I’m not a fan of Nosaka Akiyuki.

I will defeat Akiyuki Nosaka.
I will fight a duel in front of 50,000 people at Korakuen Stadium.”

I had no idea what he was talking about.

I couldn’t understand why he was going to “defeat Akiyuki Nosaka” on the night of a major incident involving the suicide of a popular idol singer. He is wearing judo gi today.

After listening to the program for a while, I learned that the previous week, late at night on Saturday, April 5, during the “All Night Fuji” program (Fuji TV), the guest and writer Akiyuki Nosaka had beaten up Takaaki Ishibashi. All Night Fuji” is not broadcast in Tottori Prefecture, where the author lives, so it is not surprising that he did not know about it. On that day, Nosaka was introduced by Takaaki Ishibashi, who said, “This is Akiyuki Nosaka, the great teacher who makes a special appearance on the show,” and he said to the “fourth generation all-nighters” sitting on the dais, “Is this a married man here? Ishibashi commented.

The right hook from Great Teacher Nosaka hit me in the body. This was not on TV, so I don’t think you all saw it. The right hook came to my liver with a thud” (Shukan Meisei, May 1, 1986).

Nosaka’s wild behavior did not stop. He thought he was holding Ishibashi’s left leg like an Achilles tendon lock, but then he stood up and slapped him across the face with the back of his left hand, eliciting screams from the all-nighters. From this point on, it was absurd. The video footage that remains on the Internet shows angry shouts and the camera abruptly switching to the new MC, Yumiko Okayasu. Yumiko Okayasu probably had no idea that she would encounter such trouble on her first day as MC.

The weekly magazine that reported the incident concluded that it was due to Nosaka’s usual bad drinking habits. After the Tonneruzu had talked as much as he could talk, he said , “Please brush your teeth this time, Nosaka-sensei. It was too hard for me.” The magazine then moved on to its regular postcard corner at 2:00 a.m. The ending of the program only lightly mentions Okada Yukiko, saying, “Oh, by the way, Okada Yukiko passed away.

The suicide of a favorite idol singer must have been a painful night for an impressionable 14-year-old, but I listened to the on-air program with my ears strained even more than usual. Perhaps I wanted to forget my grief, or perhaps I wanted to tell myself, “It’s no big deal. I think it was both.

At any rate, this night’s broadcast became a chance opportunity for me to get into Tonneruzzi.