Name: Koutarou Jyouya
Age: 46
Born: 18/11/1957 in Hiroshima
Height: 173cm
Weight: 52kg
Blood Type: A
Marital Status: Divorced and remarried
* Michiru Jo is NOT Takeshi's nephew
* He first became famous when he applied to a "star birth" audition, at the age of 15. He released his first single "irukani-notta-shounen" (boy who rode on the dolphin) in 1973, which was his most well-known song. At the age of 20, he stopped singing, to study at the Komazawa university in Tokyo, but then left at the age of 23 to return to Hiroshima. In Hiroshima, he lived with his parents and worked for them, in their electrical appliance shop.
* He then got married when he was 25, and moved to Tokyo. His first child (a son) was born 2 years later.
* It was at about this time that Takeshi's Castle was filmed. He got divorced a year later, but then remarried again when he was 34, and soon after that, his daughter was born.
* A few years ago, he got a job on local TV channel "Hiroshima TV" on a programme called "Susume, sports-genkimaru" where he talked about fishing once a month. The programme is still shown in Hiroshima, but it is unknown whether or not he is still on it.
* He is still listed as a "Class D Entertainer" , which means that his appearance fee is between 1 and 2 million yen.
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