# List of Japanese announcers

This is a list of announcers on Japanese television and radio.

## Telwvision stations in Tokyo
### Nippon Television Network Corporation - NTV

* Men
** Tomonori Yamashita
** Takahiko Fujii, host of morning show "Zoom-In Saturday!".
** Shinichi Hatori, host of morning show "Zoom-In Super!" and cast of some variety show.
** Masashi Funakoshi
* Women
** Mika Takanishi
** Yukari Nishio, host of morning show "Zoom-In Super!".
** Noriko Baba, co-host of reality show "The Sekai-gyoten News".
** Tomoyo Shibata, wife of Boston Red Sox player Daisuke Matsuzaka
** Asami Miura

### Tokyo Broadcasting System, Inc. - TBS

* Men
** Ayumi Akaogi
** Toshiyuki Doi, co-host of morning show "Watch!" and sports commentator.
** Tadahiko Sako, co-anchor of "NEWS23 with Tetsuya Chikushi".
** Shinichiro Azumi
** Hiroki Ando, cast of Sunday daytime show "Akko ni Omakase".
* Women
** Maya Kobayashi, entertainment news anchor of "Watch!" and cast of cooking show "Saturday Night Chubou".
** Ikumi Kimura, co-host of morning show "Watch!".
** Hiroko Ogura, co-anchor of "JNN News Forest, The Evening News" (Present: "JNN Evening News").
** Tomoko Kubota, co-host of game show "Amazing Animals".
** Mai Demizu, co-host of game show "Sekai Fushigi Hakken!" and political talk show "Jijihōdan".
** Akiyo Yoshida, co-host of medical program "Last Minute Doctor!"

### Fuji Television Network, Inc. - CX
#### Men

** Tetsuo Suda, co-anchor on evening news program "FNN Supernews".
** Kenji Kawabata, co-anchor on daytime news program "FNN Speak".
** Tetsuo Nagasaka, sports announcer.
** Masaharu Miyake, sports announcer (baseball, martial arts, Formula One, volleyball).
** Tsuneo Shiobara, Formula One announcer.
** Toshihiro Ito, Formula One announcer, a narrator on "Nep League".
** Yutaka Hasegawa, sports commentator, Formula One announcer.
* 2001
** Hiroki Okada
** Tomoya Morishita
** Kazuhiro Watanabe
* 2002
** Takuya Watanabe
* 2003
** Daiki Tanaka
* 2004
** Taisei Kurata
* 2005
** Yusho Tabuchi

#### Women

** Yumi Masuda
* 2000
** Yaeko Umezu
** Maya Masai
* 2001
** Sayaka Morimoto
** Aya Takashima - called "Ayapan"
* 2002
** Hitomi Nakamura
** Minako Nakano
* 2003
** Saori Ishimoto
** Tsubasa Nagano
** Yoko Tobe
* 2004
** Maasa Takahashi - reporter of "FNN Supernews Weekend".
** Maiko Saito
* 2005
** Reiko Endo
** Rio Hirai - Former TV personality "OHA-GIRL Banana"

### TV Asahi Corporation - EX

* Men
** Masahiro Sasaki
** Tomonoshin Kokubo
** Naoki Tsuboi, co-anchor of evening news "ANN Super J Channel".
** Shinichiro Kawamatsu
* Women
** Mayumi Kawase, anchor of ANN News.
** Sayaka Shimohira
** Emi Takeuchi, sports anchor of nightly news program "Houdou Station".
** Mariko Doh, host of live music show "Music Station" with Tamori.

### TV Tokyo Corporation - TX

* Men
** Masaru Akahira
** Tomoki Uekusa
* Women
** Akiko Sasaki, co-anchor of evening news "TXN NewsEye".
** Masumi Chihara

## Radio stations in Tokyo
### Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Inc. - QR

* Men
** Naomasa Terashima
** Hideaki Oota
** Kunimaru Nomura
* Women
** Junko Suzuki
** Kana Mizutani
** Chiho Fujiki

### Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. - LF

* Men
** Takashi Tsukagoshi
** Ryohei Sakuraba
** Hideo Matsumoto
** Hisanori Yoshida
** Kohji Iida
* Women
** Eriko Nasu
** Sakaya Masuyama
** Yumi Tashiro
** Yoshiko Kawano
** Mayuko Yamamoto
** Noriko Tomita
** Tomohide Shimbo

## Local broadcasting stations

* Toshifumi Takeshima (Akita Television), play-by-play announcer for the Akita Northern Happinets
* Yuichi Uwaizumi (Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc. (MBS)), on "Seyanen!".
* Saki Yagi (MBS), appearing on "Chichin Pui Pui", a news anchor.
* Hiroko Matsukawa (MBS), appearing on "Chichin Pui Pui"
* Hiroshi Shibata (Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC))
* Ukari Kita (ABC), an assistant of "Ohayo Asahi desu" (Good morning. This is ABC.).
* Hiroyuki Yamamoto (Kansai Telecasting Corporation (KTV)), host of "Nambo de Nambo" and "Supernews Anchor".
* Yuzuru Okayasu (KTV), a news anchor.
* Yasuo Toyota (KTV), a news anchor.
* Tetsushi Baba (KTV), a sports announcer (horse racing, baseball, and Osaka International Ledies Marathon)
* Keiko Fujimoto (KTV)
* Natsumi Sugimoto (KTV)
* Anna Kobayashi (Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (ytv))
* Takashi Miura (ytv), appearing on "Zoom-In Super", "Narutomo!", and an announcer on "Japan International Birdman Rally"
* Toshiharu Harada (Osaka Broadcasting Corporation (OBC, Radio Osaka))
* Toshihiko Fujii (Chukyo TV. Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (CTV))
* Others

## Former announcers

* Free-lance announcers
** Name (belonged stations)
** Akira Fukuzawa (NTV)- host of game show "Maka-joshiki no Ana" (NTV) and comedy show "Enta no Kamisama" (NTV). Also co-anchor of newsmagazine "Bankisha" (NTV) and sports commentator.
** Masataka Itsumi (FTN) - died while an active free announcer
** Mino Monta (QR) - host of "Mino Monta no Asazuba" (TBS), "Omoikkiri TV" (NTV), "Groovy After School MAX!" (TBS), "Amazing Animals" (TBS), etc.
** Etsuko Komiya (EX) - a news anchor at TV Asahi.
** Shohei Kuwabara (KTV) - narrator on "Go! Go! Gulliver-kun".
** Kyoko Uchida (CX) - ex co-anchor of late-night sports news "Sport" and host of some variety shows.
* Others
** Name (belonged stations)
** Jun'ichi Sumi (MBS) - one of three hosts of "Chichin Pui Pui".
** Shio Chino (CX) - called "Chinopan".
** Sosuke Sumitani (NTV) - he worked as a reporter of Dotch Cooking Show (Produced by ytv) but fired after he was found to have filmed up a schoolgirl's skirt using a mobile camera phone.