[1] He has three sisters, and he is the youngest child of an engineer working for Japanese National Railways and Toshiba Corporation.
[1][2] After Kume graduated from Waseda University in 1967, he started his broadcasting career at TBS as an announcer at age 22.
[1] It was a weekly live music program where top ten artists chosen by viewers' polls appeared and sang on stage, with 41.9% of highest viewership rate.
[3] The show revolutionized news reporting in Japan and achieved an average of 20 million viewers each night.
[4] One correspondent for The Straits Times in 1990 mentioned that for him to explain a news story, he would trot out "three-dimensional models" to make a bigger impact to the audience.
[2][6] As of June 2011, he also presents the weekly TV show Hiroshi Kume's Terebitte Yatsu wa?
There shouldn't be such a broadcasting station got by the balls by the state with its power on personnel affairs and budget.
The next day when Kume was talking on Kume Hiroshi Radio Nandesukedo about the progress of Asaichi on the day before, Omi sent an email to the radio station incognito, saying that she was ashamed to be aggressive to him, just like a chihuahua barking at a bigger Doberman.