“Big Daddy” Kiyoshi Hayashishita Divorces Again — 8th Marriage Ends in Just 54 Days

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“Big Daddy” Kiyoshi Hayashishita (61) divorced just 54 days after his eighth marriage, NEWS Postseven has learned. His partner was a 46-year-old woman from Nagoya raising a junior-high-age daughter; the two registered the marriage on June 24 after exchanging LINE messages, without ever actually dating in person. Even after marrying, the couple kept living apart in Tokyo and Nagoya, and after Hayashishita avoided discussing household finances, she sent him a divorce form just three weeks later. On 5channel, opinion split between those blaming Hayashishita himself for racking up an eighth marriage, and those questioning the judgment of a partner who married him knowing his history.

“Big Daddy” Kiyoshi Hayashishita divorces again — 8th marriage ends in a swift 54-day split

“Big Daddy” Kiyoshi Hayashishita (61) divorced just 54 days after his eighth marriage, NEWS Postseven has learned.

Starting this past June, Hayashishita had been exchanging LINE messages with Rina (46), an ordinary woman living in Nagoya who is raising a junior-high-age daughter. After Rina made the approach, the two registered the marriage on June 24 without ever having actually dated.

Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here

What people said

5AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:09
The reigning champion of the speed dogeza (a formal, forehead-to-the-floor apology bow)
206AnonymousAug 29, 2026 13:20
Re: #5
More like a quick-draw dogeza.
13AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:11
He's just out here trashing his own family register (koseki) at this point.
222AnonymousAug 29, 2026 13:41
Re: #13
Knowing him, he probably thinks it adds to his street cred.
23AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:13
What's this guy even repeatedly marrying for?
257AnonymousAug 29, 2026 14:11
Re: #23
Someone wrote this about him in an old thread, lol:
Hobby: marriage.
Special skill: divorce.
25AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:13
So if you just want a marriage on your record, even once, you go ask Big Daddy?
191AnonymousAug 29, 2026 13:11
Re: #25
But the price for that is ending up with his kid.
Big Daddy's got serious reproductive firepower.
36AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:15
"Before we got married, Mr. Hayashishita told me he had savings, but in reality he still had debts from a consumer loan company.
He's still working in the food service industry now, but he's stuck paying it off.
It sounds like his kids are pooling money to cover the shortfall in monthly living expenses.
It was completely different from what he said before we married, and it wrecked our trust."
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Isn't that lie basically fraud?
The ex-wife should just sue him.
43AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:15
Re: #36
Suing a guy with no money just means you lose out too.
42AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:15
After Rina made the approach, they registered the marriage on June 24 without ever having actually dated.
Even after marrying, the two never lived together, continuing to live apart in Tokyo and Nagoya. But three weeks into the marriage, in July, the wife — growing distrustful of Hayashishita's avoidance of important talks like household finances — sent him a signed divorce form, triggering a marital crisis… She explains what led her to the divorce.


Was there even any real substance to this marriage?
66AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:22
Blood type O plus Aries — that combination is wild for men and women alike. (a nod to Japan's blood-type personality lore)
197AnonymousAug 29, 2026 13:13
Re: #66
There's literally a drama with that exact premise as its title — starring Tetsuya Takeda, who's blood type O and an Aries.
132AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:40
The annoying part is he looks like Nobuo Uematsu, the Final Fantasy composer.
142AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:44
Re: #132
I thought he looked more like a slightly younger Gushiken.
136AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:41
Hey everyone. Thought I'd make an appearance myself lol ("降臨" — forum slang for the person the thread's about showing up in person)
138AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:42
Re: #136
Why'd you quit your convenience store job?
156AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:52
Only alpha males can pull off time-delayed polygamy like this.
Kind of admire it, honestly.
161AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:53
Re: #156
If you don't care who you marry, like this guy, even you could pull it off.
163AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:53
They should just ban divorce outright — once you're married, that should be it for life.
166AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:54
Re: #163
That sounds brutal…
164AnonymousAug 29, 2026 12:54
Re: #1
Lol, she was clearly after his money.
Makes Kato-chan's wife look like an absolute saint (guusei) by comparison.
182AnonymousAug 29, 2026 13:03
Is he being used for "koseki laundering" (using marriage/divorce to alter one's family register), or is this guy running it as a side business?
283AnonymousAug 29, 2026 14:46
Re: #182
I guess up through the one after Minako it was probably all genuine, though.
189AnonymousAug 29, 2026 13:08
The Japanese record for divorces is apparently something like 50, so 8 is small fry.
199AnonymousAug 29, 2026 13:15
Re: #189
At this point city hall should just be given veto power over his paperwork.

Background and key points of the debate

“Big Daddy,” real name Kiyoshi Hayashishita, is a TV personality who became known through a documentary series following his large family of biological children, and has repeatedly made headlines over the years for cycling through divorces and remarriages. This time, the focus of discussion is that the split came after registering the marriage with zero days of actually dating, and that the marriage lasted a mere 54 days — a notably short breakup even by his own track record. The thread split roughly into two camps: those pointing to “his own repeated pattern of divorcing” as the real problem, and those questioning “the judgment of a partner who married him knowing his history.” Note that the claims about savings and debt he reportedly made before the marriage are presented in the reporting as the ex-partner’s own testimony, with no third-party confirmation given in the article — this shouldn’t be taken as an established fact.

*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “‘Big Daddy’ Kiyoshi Hayashishita Divorces Again — 8th Marriage Ends in Just 54 Days.”

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