토토의 눈물

by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Totos tearsb KBS [TV, Talking Books], [Joongang Ilbo] selected · 2002 years youth recommendation book! Please kneel in front of a child and tie a shoelace! " Please feel Totos warm eyes and heart. Ahn Sung-ki (Actor, Ambassador of the United Nations Korean Commission for UNICEF) b KBS [TV, tell a book], "Joongang Ilbo" selected, 2002 years youth recommendation book. Kuroyanagi DeSuko, who was appointed Asian ambassador for the first time in Asia in 1984, is a well-known figure with the title of No. 1 NHK exclusive talent in Japan. Since his appointment as Ambassador to UNICEF, he has sought out children in the world who are in a difficult position. His main visits were conflicts and hunger in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Mozambique, Angola, Sudan, India, Iraq and Bosnia. Detsuko visited all 14 countries for 13 years from 1984 to 1997. The reality of those eyes witnessed by Tetsuko in those countries was more than just a disgrace over what he saw and understood in newspaper articles and TV broadcasts. Tetsuko is an individual who is hidden in abstract statistical figures Tell us stories that are tearful and well done. Children who can barely survive in a day, who are barely able to survive, who do not receive relief supplies even if they exceed 70% of their standard weight, children who do not receive distribution, children whose arms and legs are cut off by anti-government guerrillas, A child with a head bite on a hyena ... However, the true virtue of this book is not in shocking reality exposures or accusations. "The Tears of Toto" is a record of the deep sympathy that Deetsuko shared with his children and their minds. As Toto, who learned how to live together in school classrooms in his school days in Tomo, Tetsuko plays with his unique warm and generous mind and gives children a hug .

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Published February 14, 2017

About the author

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (黒柳 徹子) is an internationally famous Japanese actress, a talk show host, a best-selling author of children book.

She founded the Totto Foundation, named for the eponymous and autobiographical protagonist of her book Totto-chan, The Little Girl at the Window. The Foundation professionally trains deaf actors, implementing Kuroyanagi's vision of bringing theater to the deaf.

In 1984, in recognition of her charitable works, Kuroyanagi was appointed to be a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, being the first person from Asia to hold this position. During the late 1980s and the 1990s, she visited many developing countries in Asia and Africa for charitable works and goodwill missions, helping children who had suffered from disasters and war as well as raising international awareness of the situations of children in poor countries. Kuroyanagi has raised more than $20 million for the UNICEF programmes that she has been involved in, through television fund-raising campaigns. She also used the royalties from her bestselling book, Totto-chan, to contribute to UNICEF.

In 1997, Kuroyanagi published the book Totto-chan's Children, which was based on her experience working for as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador from 1984 to 1996. Kuroyanagi is a director of the Japanese branch of the World Wildlife Fund.

Kuroyanagi has twice brought America's National Theater of the Deaf to Japan, acting with them in sign language.

For her involvement in media and television entertainment, Kuroyanagi won the Japanese Cultural Broadcasting Award, which is the highest television honour in Japan. Since then, she has been voted 14 times as Japan’s favourite television personality, for the show Tetsuko’s Room.[3]

In 2000, Kuroyanagi became the first recipient of the Global Leadership for Children Award, which was established by UNICEF in the 10th anniversary of the 1990 World Summit for Children. In May 2003, Kuroyanagi received Order of the Sacred Treasure in recognition of her two decades of service for the world’s children.