Ryoko Hirosue, divorced from chef Shusaku Toba, has left him and moved abroad with her children.

There are many restaurants abroad, such as Singapore and Dubai, that employ Japanese chefs at high salaries. Now that the image business in Japan has failed, it will be extremely difficult to revive the business in Japan. He may be at the end of his rope working under the scrutiny of the media and the public.

Mr. Toba is losing both his economic power and his reputation. However, Mr. Toba is said to be as positive about remarrying Hirosue as he was before the media report.

Toba is financially strapped, but right now he is more interested in being with Hirosue. I think his ideal is to rebuild his life with her.”

However, despite Toba’s excitement, it is said that Hirosue’s enthusiasm for Toba may have cooled.

In fact, Hirosue has not told anyone about her future with Mr. Toba. They have probably not met since the affair was first reported. Even while under house arrest, he even threw a birthday party for himself and invited his good friends, so if his feelings for Mr. Toba are continuing, it is hard to imagine such a situation. Mr. Toba seems to keep telling everyone around him that they will definitely be together, but I think that may also be the flip side of his anxiety. ……” (Entertainment industry insider who knows the two)

The relationship between Hirosue and Mr. Toba is hanging in the balance, but if Mr. Toba decides to go abroad, will Hirosue go along with him?

She may be more positive than expected,” said Toba. She has long expressed her desire to move abroad in interviews, and two years ago she sent her oldest son, who was a high school student at the time, to study in the United States. It seems that she wants to give her children an environment where they are not treated as ‘Ryoko Hirosue’s children.

She is particularly fond of France, where she filmed the movie “WASABI” at the height of her popularity in her twenties. Even after returning to Japan, she could not forget her life in France, and at the announcement of the film production, she even cried because of the difference between life in Japan and France. Later, in an interview with a women’s magazine, she described her experience in France as follows.

In an interview with a women’s magazine later, she said of her experience in France: “I felt like I was looking at the person straight on, without any preconceptions. At first they treated me like a ‘little girl from Japan,’ but as the shoots went on, there were moments and moments when I was recognized as an actress, and it was a world where age and career were irrelevant.”

It was a world where age and career did not matter.” Her life in France more than 10 years ago remains vivid in her mind.

At the time, she had her hands full with domestic jobs and turned them down, but at the time of the film shoot, she had already received several offers from abroad. And she can speak French to some extent because of the filming of the movie. Last fall, actress Anne (37) moved to France with her children, and I heard that she was quite envious of them.

If Hirosue moves to France, French chef Mr. Toba’s dream of remarrying Hirosue will grow. …… Hirose, who is probably living a peaceful life and searching for the future with his children, and Mr. Toba, who is aiming to get back on track. Where will the slapstick affair involving both families end up?

From the August 11, 2023 issue of FRIDAY