Actress Momoko Fukuchi stars in the NHK nighttime drama "Radio Star" (NHK General, Monday-Thursday 10:45 PM). In the 16th episode on April 23rd, Kitamura (Makoto Sawada) suddenly collapses and is rushed to the hospital. Kanade (Fukuchi) and the others send him their support via radio broadcast.
"Radio Star" is a nonstop entertainment drama set in Noto, depicting how an ordinary citizen becomes a star. The theme song is "A Boat Full of Happiness," written and composed by Yumi Matsutoya and sung by MISIA.
In the 16th episode, it was Kitamura, an elementary school teacher, who suddenly collapsed. Thanks to the treatment given by Dr. Nakano (Tsutomu Tamura), who rushed to the scene, his life was saved. Many viewers were reminded of the emergency medical treatment immediately following the earthquake by this sequence of events. Later, Kanade invites Dr. Nakano as a guest and asks him about what happened at the time. Dr. Nakano describes the extreme situation of having to select which lives could be saved. Kanade remembers Fukuhara (Fumito Soganoya) desperately calling out to Kitamura during the school sports day.
