Sawako Agawa, an essayist and TV celebrity, has conducted 1,000 interviews with actors, athletes, writers and people in other fields for the weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun.
"I had never thought that it would continue so long, but (by focusing on this) I missed the chance to get married," the 60-year-old joked.
It was the fall of 1992 when the chief editor of the magazine offered her a chance to become an interviewer rather than continuing as an essay writer.