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Former pro baseball player and TV personality Kazushige Nagashima (60) revealed on the October 6 broadcast of “Odoru! Sanma Gotten!!” that “there isn’t a single day I’m not in pain.” He said that on top of presbyopia, he also suffers from night blindness, and that his hip pain is the toughest to deal with — comments that sparked discussion on 5ch’s Entertainment/Sports Breaking News+ board. In the thread, some reacted with “Wow, he’s already 60,” really feeling the weight of his age, while others floated a theory that steroids caused his hip pain — though this was met with pushback claiming he “was just born with a shallow hip socket.” The conversation gradually expanded to include tales of tinnitus and sudden sensorineural hearing loss from habitual earbud use.
Kazushige Nagashima: “Not a Single Day Without Pain” — Opens Up About Health Issues: “Presbyopia, Plus Night Blindness,” “Hip Pain Is the Worst”
Former pro baseball player and TV personality Kazushige Nagashima (60) appeared on Nippon TV’s “Odoru! Sanma Gotten!!” (Tuesdays, 8 PM) on the 6th, where he opened up about his physical ailments.
The episode was themed “Celebrities Whose Health Takes a Quick Turn for the Worse: Secret Body Woes Special,” with Angirls, Harisenbon, and others also sharing their own concerns.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
He did karate, so it's probably from that.
Already 60, damn.
The draft days were such a huge deal.
We're all bald and saggy now too.
He's a modern guy, so it's probably not a vitamin A deficiency — more likely genetic.
My leg pain settles down, then my stomach starts hurting.
That settles down, then my chest starts hurting.
Then that settles down and my jaw starts hurting — an endless loop.
Shigeo Nagashima on his 60th birthday, February 1996
https://www.sanspo.com/article/20210227-356IHUQWRJKVTNNHWT2ZKOXHJ4/
Masahiro Motoki, ex-member of idol group Shibugakitai, is 60 and looks like that — unbelievable.
Guess a full recovery wasn't in the cards?
Right, so after that the next worst pain moved to his lower back.
Ichiro's got a full head of hair too, right?
Whether you go bald depends more on your mother's side of the genes.
Looked like major surgery, but I guess you can walk again pretty quickly after.
If you don't move it, the wound heals up with adhesions forming all over, so you have to get moving right away.
You heal while moving.
I don't have a single day where I feel 100% either.
Dunno if it's true, but he says it's been like that since he was 10.
If you use earbuds every day, it'll catch up to you sooner than you think.
Same, ever since I got sudden hearing loss the tinnitus never stops.
At my workplace, three people quit over sudden hearing loss within a year and a half.
HR sent out a notice telling everyone to cut back on earbud use as much as possible.
Yeah, earbuds really do cause problems like that.
It's probably a mansion or a fancy condo, so the dining table lighting's some dim orange-ish bulb lol
Just switch it to a daylight-white LED already.
If he lives somewhere nice, these days it's probably the kind where you can switch between both with one button.
We do have something like a call center, but the people who quit were all from unrelated departments.
Still, they were always wearing earbuds playing mobile games before shifts and during breaks.
It happens even when it's not literally around the clock, huh.
Joints really are a consumable part.
But he says it's been since he was 10.
A Giants coach back then said that in terms of raw talent alone, Ichimo was number one.
Though he also said Ichimo was no good as a player because he hated practicing and wouldn't listen to anyone.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Nagashima has spoken about his hip pain before, and it’s well known that he underwent joint replacement surgery. The thread’s “steroids caused it” theory is on shaky ground — the main cause of hip osteoarthritis is typically congenital skeletal factors (such as acetabular dysplasia), and indeed some replies pushed back on it. Night blindness is more often genetic than caused by nutritional deficiency, and with modern diets, nutrition-related cases are rare. The conversation also wandered into linking habitual earbud use with sudden sensorineural hearing loss — worth noting that medicine hasn’t firmly established that causal link, and individual workplace anecdotes don’t necessarily generalize. The remark that “if it came down to talent alone, Ichimo was number one,” attributed to a Giants coach, is an anecdote that’s been quoted before, and it resurfaced again in this thread.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports Breaking News+) thread “[Celebrity] Kazushige Nagashima: “Not a Single Day Without Pain” — Opens Up About Health Issues: “Presbyopia, Plus Night Blindness,” “Hip Pain Is the Worst”.”
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