by Chris MaGee
If you've spent any time in Japan you'll recognize this guy's face... although he normally isn't smiling. He's the dictionary definition of smug. Norio Minorikawa, better known as Monta Mino, is the media personality par excellence of Japan. He hosts 11 TV programs from current events shows to nature programs as well as appears in commercials and print campaigns. He's as much a part of the Japanese urban landscape as vending machines and tanuki statues.
Not surprisingly the 64 year-old Mino set a world record back in November of 2006 for a TV host clocking in the most live air time in one week (21 hours and 42 minutes). Well, now Maboroshii Productions has run an Associated Press Story that Mino has broken his previous record having racked up 22 hours and 15 seconds of live air time this past April. I'd congratulate Mino, but frankly his everywhere-at-once-persona kind of creeped me out when I was in Japan. All I can say is that, to my knowledge, he hasn't appeared in any films... yet.
If you've spent any time in Japan you'll recognize this guy's face... although he normally isn't smiling. He's the dictionary definition of smug. Norio Minorikawa, better known as Monta Mino, is the media personality par excellence of Japan. He hosts 11 TV programs from current events shows to nature programs as well as appears in commercials and print campaigns. He's as much a part of the Japanese urban landscape as vending machines and tanuki statues.
Not surprisingly the 64 year-old Mino set a world record back in November of 2006 for a TV host clocking in the most live air time in one week (21 hours and 42 minutes). Well, now Maboroshii Productions has run an Associated Press Story that Mino has broken his previous record having racked up 22 hours and 15 seconds of live air time this past April. I'd congratulate Mino, but frankly his everywhere-at-once-persona kind of creeped me out when I was in Japan. All I can say is that, to my knowledge, he hasn't appeared in any films... yet.
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