Yoshio Kojima

When “Sonna no kankei nee” was everywhere, I assumed Yoshio Kojima would be gone within a year — the classic one-joke comedian in swim trunks. And for a while, television did move on from him. What happened next is the part I find genuinely impressive. He rebuilt his career in front of children, doing the same swimsuit-clad physical comedy while teaching school subjects along the way. That is a harder room than any adult audience. Grown-ups get bored politely; kids simply stop watching. Born on Kumejima in Okinawa and educated at Waseda, he clearly thought hard about where he could actually survive instead of waiting for the trend to swing back. There is something deeply satisfying about the performer everyone wrote off as a fad outlasting most of the people who laughed at him.

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Name (English)

Yoshio Kojima

Name (Japanese)

小島よしお

Reading

こじま よしお

Born

November 16, 1980 (age 45)

Origin

Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan

Height

178 cm

Occupation

actor / owarai tarento

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

Blood type

O

Agency

サンミュージックプロダクション

University

Waseda University

Spouse

既婚

Works summary

Appearances

133 (2002–2026)

By year

2002: 2, 2004: 1, 2007: 4, 2008: 9, 2009: 4, 2010: 4, 2011: 4, 2012: 6, 2013: 4, 2014: 5, 2015: 2, 2016: 9, 2017: 3, 2018: 5, 2019: 5, 2020: 2, 2021: 5, 2022: 5, 2023: 4, 2024: 7, 2025: 10, 2026: 4

Debut work

コスモ★エンジェル

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://sunmusic-gp.co.jp/talent/kojima_yoshio/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kojimayoshiopiya/
• Xhttps://x.com/yoshiopiiya
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio%20Kojima
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E5%B3%B6%E3%82%88%E3%81%97%E3%81%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8056236

Tags

• Okinawa Prefecture
• actor
• owarai tarento

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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