In Memoriam: Tomoaki Ogura, who Loved Music, “It’s OK to Date Popular Women” – An MC’s Life without Discovery

Tokudane! MC for 22 years

On December 9, freelance announcer Tomoaki Ogura passed away at the age of 77. In 2004, he announced that he had bladder cancer, which was removed completely in 2006. Since then, he had been battling cancer that had spread to his lungs and kidneys.

According to “Mezamashi media,” he was diagnosed at a hospital on December 4, and returned home from the hospital on December 6, where he had been hospitalized and was under the care of his wife.

Ogura joined Tokyo 12 Channel (the predecessor of TV Tokyo) in 1970, and was scouted by Keizumi Ohashi when he started “Ohashi Keizumi’s Sunday Horse Racing Nippon” (Nippon Broadcasting System) in 1976. With that opportunity, she moved to Mr. Ohashi’s office as a freelance announcer.

She began her career as a narrator on “Sekai Marugoto How Match” (TBS), which started in October 1984. She was appointed as a host of a series of wide-ranging TV shows from around 1989, and in April 1999, she started “Information Presenter Toku Dane! (Fuji Television Network), which started in April 1999 and lasted for 22 years until March 2009.

On the November 23 broadcast of the talk show “Ogura Base” (Fuji TV), she was in good spirits as she talked with guests Hiro of EXILE (55) and Wakana Matsumoto (40), an actress, but this was her last appearance.

(There will be) looting.

For more than 50 years, Mr. Ogura worked tirelessly on TV and radio, but music was his passion, and he was such a fanatic that he owned as many as 40,000 CDs and DVDs, and frequented the Blue Note Tokyo jazz club in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo. FRIDAY has seen Ogura visit the club on several occasions. In August 2002, he visited with a young woman and enjoyed a live performance by Koji Tamaki (66). He then moved to Roppongi, where he met up with TV station officials for a meeting.

He said, “In his private life, he is a very gentlemanly man. He was always happy to talk about how popular he was with the girls,” said a Fuji TV news program official.

On February 22, 2012, he appeared for two years on “5 o’clock! (TOKYO MX) on February 22, 2012, for the first time in two and a half years, Ogura was asked about the day’s theme, “Have you ever dated someone who was popular with girls? (TOKYO MX), Ms. Ogura was asked about the theme of the day, “Have you ever dated someone who is popular?

I’ve never dated someone who wasn’t popular. That’s because, after all, it’s good to date a woman who is popular with the ladies.

He then added, “It’s good to make it your own,

I think it’s good to make it your own. (Even if the other person has a boyfriend, there is looting, isn’t there? I don’t care.

The studio was filled with laughter. The studio was filled with laughter.

On TV, her blunt attitude and blunt remarks were her “selling points. He was not discerning about any topic, and his comments sometimes caused controversy. in March 2006,

In an appearance on “Tokudane!” in March 2006, he said, “There are times when I know that if I say something like this, it will cause a firestorm, and there are also times when I ask why I say it.　But sometimes I do it knowingly, and sometimes I just say, “Why do you have to do this? However, for good or for bad, it is good to be talked about.

He said things such as, “I am not tired of being criticized. I think he was proud to be an MC, and even if he was criticized, it was better to be criticized than to be bored. I don’t think we will ever see another MC like him again.

We will miss hearing his dynamic comments. We pray for his soul rest in peace.