Hachimitsu Jiro, wheelchair-bound due to dialysis… A single father’s beloved daughter’s wish is to “live until she’s 16” Appearing in front of the camera in a wheelchair was the straight man of the comedy duo Tokyo Dynamite, Hachimitsu Jiro (50). His health deteriorated after he contracted coronavirus, and he was put on dialysis as a life-prolonging treatment. Now I can’t live without a wheelchair. Abema Entertainment will be taking an exclusive look at Hachi-Mitsu Jiro, who announced in March of this year that he would be suspending his comedy duo activities. We get a glimpse into the true face of Hachi-mitsu Jiro, who is battling illness as both a comedian and a single father to a 12-year-old daughter. In 2001, he formed Tokyo Dynamite with Daisuke Matsuda. They are a talented comedy duo that has made it to the finals of the M-1 Grand Prix twice in the past, and Jiro is often mentioned by young comedians as an admired tsukkomi comedian. He also works as a wrestler, and in 2017 he faced off against Atsushi Onita. In his private life, after dating and breaking up with Sola Aoi, he married a former idol in 2010 but broke up within a year. He later remarried in 2012 with an ordinary woman and had a daughter. Jiro’s body began to change when his daughter was in the second grade of elementary school. It all started when I contracted coronavirus. Hachimitsu Jiro: First it was Corona. I got it between the first and second waves. At the time, even the hospital didn’t know what to do. I was rushed to the hospital, given general anesthesia in an outside treatment room, and spent eight days in bed. I went to sleep and woke up with a tube stuck in my neck. There are drips everywhere. He said he was undergoing dialysis, so I said, “Wait a minute. I said, “Once you start dialysis, you can’t stop it for the rest of your life, right?” But my wife was very upset at the time, so she told me that she couldn’t give him life-prolonging treatment unless I did this, and so I just told her to keep living. Well, I guess it can’t be helped. In the end, I just can’t stop. So in terms of numbers, there is a certain number that would require dialysis, but I’m not quite at that level yet. It wasn’t good, but it started even though it hadn’t gotten that far yet. In order to stop undergoing dialysis, Jiro decides to have his wife donate a kidney for a transplant. However, he ended up divorcing his wife… Hachimitsu Jiro: Only blood relatives can be donors. My ex-wife said she was going to do it, but before I knew it, she was having an affair. I even stopped raising my children. My mother decided to do it, and performed the surgery, but it failed. There are people who will criticize me for saying this is a failure, but I was told it was a failure. But there are some know-it-alls out there who say it’s a failure just because it didn’t fit and all that, and I just can’t stand it. You’re so noisy, seriously. Put yourself in my shoes, dude. Jiro was physically and mentally exhausted, but what worried him was how his daughter felt about living away from her mother. –How old was your daughter at the time? Hachimitsu Jiro: She was 8 years old. I hid the fact that I was divorced and didn’t say anything, but it seems like kids can figure it out. When she was about 8 or 9 years old, she started asking me, “Why did you get divorced?” They don’t teach us the word divorce. That happened often. When someone is arguing, you might suddenly see a shadow on the other side of the door. I think that’s really sad. Several months later, during one of our arguments, my daughter, who was 9 years old at the time, would burst into tears and say in a hoarse voice, “I should have just torn up the divorce papers,” and “It’s my fault for not being able to stop it.” Hachi-mitsu Jiro: I’m raising my daughter as a single father, but she wasn’t like, “I’ll follow you, or I’ll follow my mother.” Already 9 years old, she decided to stay home. “I’m staying home” was all he said. I kept saying, “We want to go back to being a family of three.” So it’s not like she was following me or anything, she was like, ‘I’m not going anywhere, I’m staying here’. Hachimitsu Jiro: (My daughter) is really hurt. I love my mom, but she’s gone. I cried and begged him to come back, but he refused. I thought that he must be extremely hurt, so I tried to do everything possible, or rather, make him laugh by eating meals with him. Lately, as soon as I finish eating, I go upstairs and watch TikTok. I understand. The average time for dialysis is 16 years. For some people, the shortest time between starting dialysis and death is five years. I can definitely tell now that it’s the 5th year. I can’t move at that speed anymore. That means there’s only about a year left. Click the link for more details.
He went on dialysis even though he didn’t need to, and then offered to donate his kidney to stop it, but then he cheated on me and ran away, leaving our daughter behind. I want a wife like that.
I think the hospital told his wife that she would die if she didn’t undergo artificial dialysis and she agreed. She was probably blamed so much for it that it caused a breakdown in their relationship.
I don’t know what the situation is like when he says he doesn’t need dialysis. He seems to be really blaming his wife. He even made her promise to give him a kidney even though they’re not related by blood.
It would be one thing if only she suffered because of her own unhealthy lifestyle, but I just feel sorry for her, as she has no future because of her parents’ selfishness.
>>29 It’s said that people with diabetes are at risk if they get coronavirus, so I guess the doctor on the scene decided that she would die if she didn’t get dialysis.
There are people who protect their wives, but I understand that she ran away, but cheating is crap. Also, Hachi-Mitsu got divorced within a year of her first marriage, so maybe there’s something going on.
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