(ミヤネ屋) The story behind this trend in Social Media today
02-10-2026
The social-media trend around ミヤネ屋 today is the final broadcast of the long-running Japanese afternoon information program 情報ライブ ミヤネ屋.The show, produced by Yomiuri TV and carried on the Nippon TV network, aired its last episode on October 2, 2026. That broadcast was the 5,134th live edition and closed a run that began on July 31, 2006, as a Kansai-local program and expanded to nationwide coverage from March 31, 2008. Free announcer Seiji Miyane had hosted it throughout. Reports earlier in the year said he asked to step down around the 20-year mark so he could try something new; the station accepted, and the end date was later confirmed on air.The finale was built as a retrospective special. Miyane interviewed shogi player Sota Fujii together with Fujii’s teacher. Actress Erika Sawajiri made a surprise studio appearance, tied to an old on-the-spot interview the program had done with her years earlier. Video messages came from actors including Ken Watanabe, Yuki Amami, and Yo Oizumi, and a handwritten letter arrived from Sayuri Yoshinaga. Regular and former contributors also appeared, among them announcer Shinichi Hatori at the close. Miyane said he felt both loneliness and the relief of a weight lifted, thanked viewers, staff, and co-hosts, and ended with the line that the shop was closing its shutter for good“これにて閉店ガラガラ、さようなら”a casual send-off that many viewers singled out.The name quickly rose to the top of Japanese trend rankings. Comments were largely sentimental: people recalled watching during school lunches, work breaks, or afternoons at home, thanked the show for twenty years, and noted the unexpected shutter-closing sign-off. A successor program, ニュース to, is set to start in the same weekday afternoon slot on October 5, with Yomiuri TV announcer Chiaki Kuroki as a main host and SUPER EIGHT’s Shingo Murakami appearing on Fridays.The reaction is the ordinary farewell to a familiar daytime staple rather than a fresh controversy, though the show’s two decades also included well-known live moments and occasional controversies that coverage of the finale has revisited.