We’ve been seeing a lot of Koizumi Kotaro (24) in the last year and a half. The Prime Minister’s son entered showbusiness in 2001 and has been busy doing TV and commercial work since. Next month he is to get his own weekly show on Fuji TV, tentatively titled “Kotaro ga Yuku” (Kotaro Goes). He will seek out and interview big players in various walks of life. The first ‘target’ is baseball legend and current Daiei Hawks manager Oh Sadaharu.
• Up and coming “visual” rock band Akira were involved in a traffic accident at the weekend. Kimishima Hirotaka (18) was left unconscious and the four other band members slightly injured when their tour van was hit from behind by a refrigerator truck on the Tomei Expressway.