Mikio Date

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Mikio Date
伊達 みきお
Born	(1974-09-05) 5 September 1974 (age 52) Izumi-shi (now Izumi-ku, Sendai), Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Education	Sendai Commercial High School (now Sendai City Sendai Commercial High School)
Spouse	Maiko Kumagai ​ (m. 2009)​
Partner	Takeshi Tomizawa
Children	1
Relatives	Sayuri Date (niece)
Comedy career
Years active	1998–

Mikio Date (伊達 みきお, 伊達 幹生, Date Mikio; DAH-tay; born 5 September 1974) is a Japanese comedian who performs tsukkomi of the double act Sandwichman. He has origins from the Ōedashi's Shoryū Date clan.

He was born from Izumi-shi (now Izumi-ku, Sendai), Miyagi Prefecture. He is represented with Grape Company. He has a height of 170 cm (5 ft 7 in), weighs 90 kilograms (200 lb), and his bust/weight/hip measurement is 110-100-109 cm.

Biography

• He graduated from Sendai Municipal Yashida Junior High School and Sendai Commercial High School. In 1998, after forming "Oya Fukō" with classmate Takeshi Tomizawa of the rugby club, Tsutomu Hamada joined and they became Sandwichman. In September 2000, Hamada withdrew, but the unit name did not change. They had been renamed to "Viking" for a period of time around the end of 2003.
• Being qualified as a special counsellor for welfare equipment, he actually had work on welfare-related work before his double act formation.
• The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (the aftermath) occurred during the location of Sand no Bonyarinu TV at Kesennuma on 11 March 2011, which affected Takeshi Tomizawa, announcer Mari Nakui, and the programme staff. Although they took refuge at Azumi Mountain by the staff's instruction, a fire broke out after the town was flooded by the tsunami, and it became in a state where they could not go down the mountain. After that, they evacuated to a hotel lobby in Kesennuma. The next morning he reported on his blog that they were safe, he went to his parents' house and confirmed the safety of his flesh, and returned to Tokyo over ten hours.
• In his official blog on 12 March 2011 his post Everyone Please Do! Is an English translated sentence from the editorial board of the British newspaper The Independent which said that a "Japanese wife has read the emotional blog" editor-in-chief John Marin said that it was "also important to communicate the misery of the disaster, but also to send messages to encourage people to send messages, the role of the newspaper", with hints from Date's blog, "Ganbare, Japan!" and "Ganbare, Tōhoku" and the opportunity to make the cover of the Sunday version which treated Hinomaru. n addition, one sentence from Date's blog After our war, our grandpa and Ba-chan revived Japan. Reconstruction of Japan that was said to be a miracle in the world. Be sure to revive! Do not speak Japan! Do not speak Tōhoku! Is translated into English and introduced to The Independent's electronic version.
• On 12 January 2012, his eldest daughter was born.
• On 30 July 2016, his daughter was hospitalised with acute gastroenteritis and returned to the next day on 31 July.
• He is the uncle of voice actress Sayuri Date.

Personal life

• He attended Ishinomaki-shi Watanabe Elementary School in Watanoha, Ishinomaki until second grade, then lived in Senrioka, Suita, Osaka for three years from elementary school for two years, and had lived in Kōriyama, Fukushima Prefecture for three years.
• In May 2009, he announced that he was engaged by Miyagi Prefecture's freelance announcer Maiko Kumagai in his own blog. They held a reception in Miyagi Prefecture on 11 July 2009.
• Tomizawa makes the basic netas of Sandwichman's conte and manzai, but the material that makes himself blurred such as "injured man" is made by Date (himself "ad lib").
• His respecting celebrities are Summers and Tomizawa, but as individually, which are Emiko Kaminuma and Tunnels, and also honour Jiro Hachimitsu of Tokyo Dynamite. He regards Jiro Hachimitsu is also a member of his group "Jirokai".
• He is nicknamed "Date-chan" (伊達ちゃん). On the other hand, because his true face is a child face of the unbelievable face, Shinsuke Shimada calls him "Onabe (おなべ) or "Onabe-chan" (おなべちゃん)., and Hiroyuki Miyasako touched him as "Chigusa Nagayo Ni" but he himself have to deny.
• He gifted the name to Chiharu Shiraki at the time as a member of Flat Five, Shura Oni, later Aa! Shiraki and gave him a disciple.
• A massage is one of his enjoyments when staying at a hotel. Because of his body shape and blonde hair, he is mistaken as a professional wrestler from eight percent of the masseur. When he is misunderstood, it is named a wrestling mask "Masked Shanghai".
• He is a geko (a person who cannot drink alcohol), and so is his partner Tomizawa. He is also a smoker.
• He wanted to become a police officer and took the Police Entrance Exam twice (and failed both).
• On 12 November 2017 in a broadcasting section of Kaminuma Takada no Kugizuke!, it was revealed that he has extreme hypertension with systolic period 211 and diastolic period 147, his doctor said "You can die in front of you", and also talked about being declared. Although he was taking anti-hypertensive drugs after that, he was still saying that the systolic period was around 160, and said that he did not smoke cigarettes as well.

Filmography

References

External links

• Mikio Date official blog "Mō ī ze!" – (15 Jan 2008 –) (in Japanese)
• Mikio Date blog (Former blog: Mar 2005 – Nov 2007) (in Japanese)