The original "Totto-chan" was published in 1981. Released in China in 2003, the book became an instant bestseller. To date, China accounts for half of the 26 million copies published worldwide.

The new book starts right after Tomoe Gakuen was burned down in an air raid in 1945, and it follows Totto-chan and her family after they evacuate to Aomori Prefecture. Kuroyanagi said she was ...

She will publish a long-awaited sequel to her famed memoir “Totto-chan: The little girl at the window,” one of the best-selling books ever in Japan. “I gradually came to think that if many ...

The 90-year-old — whose childhood nickname was memorialized in her ... covers her music school graduation, her work as an actor at NHK and her studies in New York. A sequel to "Totto-chan ...

In over 40 years, the book ‘Totto-chan: The little girl at the window,’ has enthralled generations of people. It is the memoir of Japanese TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, who studied in the ...

Between “Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window” and “Hola Frida” the depiction of people with Polio has been seen a lot in one weekend – compared to rarely if ever at all previously.

The staff of the 2025 New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) announced the festival award winners on Wednesday, and the Totto-Chan ... published the book in Japan in 1981 ...