Hikaru Uchimura’s Marriage to Yumi Tokunaga and His 16-Year Comeback on Uchimura Produce

On September 28 at 10 p.m., “Celebration of Mitsuyoshi Uchimura’s 65th Anniversary” was held as a program to commemorate the 65th anniversary of TV Asahi’s opening of the station! Mitsuyoshi Uchimura 60th Anniversary Festival Uchimura Produce Revival SP! was broadcast from 10 p.m. on September 28.

The program was a variety show that began airing in 2000, and despite its popularity, it was cancelled in 2005. In 2008, a one-off special program was aired, but since then it has never been aired again, making it the first “revival” in 16 years.

There are many rumors as to how the popular program was abruptly terminated, but one of the rumored causes was the “affair” between Uchimura and announcer Yumi Tokunaga.

It was more than 20 years ago, so young people probably don’t know about it.

While discussing their marital relationship, they had an affair.

In April 2003, a weekly magazine reported their trip to a hot spring. At the time, Tokunaga was married to a fellow employee who was also a director at TV Asahi, which would have made his relationship with Uchimura an affair.

Uchimura and Tokunaga had been co-starring in “Uchimura Produce,” and the relationship deepened as Tokunaga, who had been having difficulties with her husband, talked to Uchimura about it.

As a result of the revelation of the affair, Tokunaga withdrew from “Uchimura Produce” and all other programs she was in charge of. In September of the same year, her divorce from her husband was finalized.

According to a TV Asahi official familiar with the situation at the time, “Tokunaga had an affair with a co-starring celebrity,

If she had an affair with one of her co-starring celebrities, she couldn’t just walk away. And she and her husband were colleagues in the same company.

Two years later, she and Uchimura remarried, but “Uchimura Produce” was cancelled that same year.