Akiko Kuji: “Electric Marriage” and a Winning Team? Survival Strategies of the “Noh” Announcers
Arts and Entertainment: "Seven People on the Rise" (in Japanese)
I am very sorry to tell you this, but I am engaged to professional basketball player Yuta Watanabe (27).
On May 26, Kuji Akiko, 27, a former announcer at Fuji Television, announced her engagement in person on the noon news program “Pop Up! The next day, she and Watanabe reported their engagement on each other’s Instagram.
They met in ’19 during an interview for “Mezamashi TV” and quickly became close after the Tokyo Olympics last year. They got married in less than 10 months of dating.
They chose “Pop-Up!” as the place to make the announcement because they had made a promise to Fuji. In fact, even before I left the company, it was decided that my first return to TV would be on a new program, “Pop Up! No one could have imagined that it would turn out to be an engagement announcement, though.
In February of this year, she was teased by the comedy duo Onikoshi Tomahawk in a variety show, “Even if you quit, Fuji Television will not suffer a single millimeter of damage! Kuji was teased by the comedy duo Onikoshi Tomahawk in a variety show in February of this year, and cried. However, the situation is changing with her marriage. According to Daijiro Maruyama, a critic of female TV announcers, “Kuji’s marriage to a top-class athlete has changed her situation.
Marriage to a top athlete has given her a new character as a celebrity wife. From now on, she will be able to attract fans among women of her generation and married women who yearn for a comfortable lifestyle by sharing her lifestyle on SNS and other media. Christel Takigawa (44) is the perfect model for him. I think she can be active in a variety of media in the future, not just on TV.
The future is bright, both publicly and privately!
From the June 17, 2022 issue of FRIDAY
Image： Yusuke Kondo (Kuji) Japan Magazine Association (Watanabe)
