:Monta Mino
{{Short description|Japanese television presenter (1944–2025)}}
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| native_name = みの もんた
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| birth_name = Norio Minorikawa
| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|8|22|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Tokyo, Empire of Japan
| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|3|1|1944|8|22|df=yes}}
| death_place = Tokyo, Japan
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| alma_mater = Rikkyo University
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| occupation = TV presenter
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| spouse = {{marriage|Yasuko Minorikawa|1970|2012|reason=died}}
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| children = 3
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{{Nihongo|Monta Mino|みの もんた|Mino Monta}}, born {{Nihongo|Norio Minorikawa|御法川 法男|Minorikawa Norio|22 August 1944 – 1 March 2025}}, was a Japanese television presenter.
Mino was recognized by the Guinness World Records as being the TV host with the most hours of live TV appearances in a week (22 hours, 15 seconds), as of April 2008. This breaks his earlier 2006 record of 21 hours, 42 minutes.{{Cite web |url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2008/04/080418.aspx |title=guinnessworldrecords, Mino's record on Guinness |access-date=7 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205194853/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2008/04/080418.aspx |archive-date=5 December 2008 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov28/0,4670,JapanTVHost,00.html |title=FOXNews.com - Japanese TV Host Is World's Busiest - Celebrity Gossip Entertainment News Arts And Entertainment |website=Fox News |access-date=29 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061130080727/http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Nov28/0,4670,JapanTVHost,00.html |archive-date=30 November 2006 |url-status=dead }}
Career
Mino was from Setagaya in Tokyo. He graduated from Rikkyo High School and Rikkyo University. After a short stint in the conservative newspaper Sankei Shimbun, he was transferred to sister company Nippon Cultural Broadcasting in 1967, where he worked as a radio announcer reading the news, covering baseball games, and hosting the late-night program Sei! Young. The name Mino Monta originated in the opening to another NCB program he hosted, "All Japan Pop 20". He left NCB in 1979 to work at his father's company in Aichi Prefecture, but continued to read the news as a contractor for Aichi Broadcasting.
He presented the morning news show {{nihongo|Mino Monta no Asa Zuba!|みのもんたの朝ズバッ!}}, Quiz $ Millionaire (the Japanese version of the British quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?), and the Sunday evening {{nihongo|Amazing Animals|どうぶつ奇想天外|Dōbutsukisōtengai}}, among other programmes. Mino also hosted the long-running afternoon television programme {{nihongo|Omoikkiri TV|おもいっきりテレビ}} in which he dispensed lifestyle and health advice; it was discontinued in 2007.
He claimed he only needed four hours of sleep every night because of hosting eleven TV programmes, including news shows, talk shows, wildlife shows and quiz shows, and appearing on television every day of the week except Sunday.[http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jiHNev-owwFXGZCfoe4exeR6TARAD9144IOO1 Afp.google.com, Guinness: Japanese TV host is world's busiest] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609064740/http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jiHNev-owwFXGZCfoe4exeR6TARAD9144IOO1 |date=9 June 2008 }}[http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080605p2a00m0na011000c.html mainichi.jp/national TV mogul Mino smashes world record for 'most live hours in a week']{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Personal life and death
Mino's wife, {{Nihongo|Yasuko Minorikawa|御法川 靖子|Minorikawa Yasuko}} died on 22 May 2012 of cancer, aged 65.{{cite web|url=http://www.47news.jp/news/2012/05/post_20120523111001.html |script-title=ja:御法川靖子さんが死去 みのもんた氏の妻 |trans-title=Monta Mino's wife Yasuko Minorikawa dies |date=23 May 2012 |work=47 News |publisher=Press Net Japan Co., Ltd. |location=Japan |language=Japanese |accessdate=23 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525202242/http://www.47news.jp/news/2012/05/post_20120523111001.html |archivedate=25 May 2012 }} They had been married since November 1970.{{cite web |url= http://sankei.jp.msn.com/entertainments/news/120523/ent12052306340001-n1.htm|script-title=ja:みのもんた悲痛、妻の御法川靖子さんが死去|trans-title=Wife Yasuko Minorikawa dies - Monta Mino heartbroken |date= 23 May 2012|work= MSN Sankei News|publisher= The Sankei Shimbun & Sankei Digital|location= Japan|language= Japanese|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523045103/http://sankei.jp.msn.com/entertainments/news/120523/ent12052306340001-n1.htm|archivedate=23 May 2012|url-status= dead|accessdate= 23 May 2012}}
Mino was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2020 and refrained from appearing on television.
On 1 March 2025, Mino choked at a restaurant in Minato, Tokyo, and was sent to a hospital for treatment. He died in the early hours of 1 March, at the age of 80.{{cite news |title=【訃報】フリーアナウンサー・みのもんたさん（80）死去 きょう未明家族に見守られ…今年1月に飲食店で食事をのどに詰まらせ救急搬送 |url=https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/28251824/ |work=Livedoor News |agency=TBS News Dig |date=1 March 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250301052156/https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/28251824/ |archive-date=1 March 2025 |language=ja}}
Controversies
In September 2013, Mino took a break from television news duties following the arrest on 13 September of his 31-year-old son, {{Nihongo|Yuto Minorikawa|御法川 雄斗}}, who was charged with stealing a man's bag on the street in Tokyo.{{cite web|url=http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/10/249225.html |title=TV talent Monta Mino's son admits bag theft charge |date=2 October 2013 |agency=Kyodo News |location=Japan |accessdate=21 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021015717/http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/10/249225.html |archivedate=21 October 2013 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0913/TKY201309130062.html |script-title=ja:みのさん、報道番組自粛へ 次男逮捕「父として責任」 |trans-title=Mino to impose voluntary TV news programme ban following arrest of son, quoting "Responsibility as father" |date=13 September 2013 |work=Asahi Shimbun Digital |publisher=The Asahi Shimbun Company |location=Japan |language=Japanese |accessdate=21 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020015704/http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0913/TKY201309130062.html |archivedate=20 October 2013 }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name| 0591538}}
- [http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2009/01/04/tv/japans-mr-television-2/ Japan’s ‘Mr. Television’, January 2009 The Japan Times interview]
- {{discogs artist|みのもんた}}
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Category:Japanese game show hosts
Category:Japanese television presenters
Category:Japanese television talk show hosts
Category:Mass media people from Tokyo