[A Story Starting from a Letter] Sunday Afternoons Listening to Sanposu Have Expanded My Life

Welcome☆

Welcome to the world of Tatsunoko Ryujiro!

Since you've come all this way, it's fate.
Please take a little souvenir home with you.

I'll give it to you first—oh, no, of course, there's no charge. Please, go ahead!
If you try listening to the radio program and we can share the feeling of "that's great/nice/awesome," that's more than enough.

The name of that souvenir is

"SUNDAY'S POST"

Sunday's Post, or Sanposu for short.

This is the name of my favorite radio program.

It is broadcast every Sunday from 15:00 to 15:50. (A long-running program that has been airing since February 2019)

I've been listening since the broadcast on February 20, 2022, and there is no other radio program that has "enriched my life" as much as this one.

After the COVID-19 pandemic, YouTube and individual radio streamers increased, but I still think radio is just so interesting! that's it.

The personalities are broadcast writer and screenwriter Kundo Koyama, who is the creator of the TV program "Iron Chef" and Kumamoto's representative mascot "Kumamon," and freelance announcer Natsumi Uga, who is known for her frank talk. They are a mismatched duo with truly opposite personalities and are very interesting.

JFN 38 stations nationwide (Japan FM Network: Japan FM Broadcasting Council), so it can be watched nationwide in real-time.
Also, you can listen to it in the archive on radiko for up to one week after the broadcast date. ※I always watch the archive.

Now, I will introduce the amazing parts of this program in order!

★1. Diverse guests, the sense of distance is incredible

→The guests who appear are incredibly luxurious or are top-tier people who are active and attracting attention in certain fields, or people living interesting lives are invited. (Recent celebrities include Ultraman suit actor Bin Furuya, rakugo performer Shinosuke Tatekawa, singer Ayaka Hirahara, professional tennis player Kimiko Date, and many others)

→If you send a letter to the program (specifying the guest) only for about 1 month after the broadcast, it will definitely reach the guest (meaning they might read it depending on the guest). From the guests I sent letters to, I have actually received handwritten replies.

★2. It has dignity and class like NHK

→The program is sponsored by "Japan Post." It is also thanks to the personalities, but it has a surprising amount of dignity and class. There is nothing vulgar at all. The content is safe to listen to, so there are even elementary school listeners. I truly think how much more fun my life would have been if I could have listened to it since I was a child.

★3. It's not just heartwarming, sometimes it even brings tears to your eyes

→It has happened several times while listening. I have shed tears at the stories of the guests and the contents of the listeners' postcards. I think it is probably more full of realizations than a sermon by a local monk. →Past broadcast contents can mostly be read in text. However,


the reading of the letters written by the guests is only on the radio broadcast, which means you can only listen for one week. After all, there is meaning in having the person themselves read it in their own voice.

For these reasons, it is the No. 1 radio program I would like to recommend. Please give it a listen!

This is a bit of a side note, but...

To my surprise, my submission was once read as a listener postcard on the program.
I was so happy I could have jumped for joy!
If you are interested in that story, please take a look!

Actually, out of everyone featured on the broadcast, one person is chosen to receive a special fountain pen made by the program.

Click here for the episode featuring Wancher Co., Ltd., located in the Showa-era town of Bungotakada City, Oita Prefecture, which sparked this gift. (They have a wonderful initiative of gifting fountain pens to all the local junior high school students.)

This fountain pen is the dream item I am aiming for. If my letter gets read and I manage to get the fountain pen... how exciting!

I have an ambition that it will surely be the first step toward my dream of writing many letters and works.

66-Day Writing Running

It is my 12th day since starting.


*If you are interested, reading the beginning of the article below will be quick!

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