Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Japanese actress, television personality, and author — author of Totto-Chan — UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador — host of Tetsuwan! Dash — whose memoir of her progressive childhood schooling became the best-selling Japanese book.

Creates Totto-Chan as Japan's most beloved childhood memoir — Kuroyanagi's account of Tomoe Gakuen is the Japanese book that most shaped popular understanding of progressive education and the importance of unconventional learning environments.