Hiroko Kuniya

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Hiroko Kuniya (国谷裕子, Kuniya Hiroko) (amuru Febụwarị 3, 1957) bụ onye mgbasa ozi na onye nta akụkọ Japan.  A mụrụ Kuniya na Osaka Prefecture wee gụchaa akwụkwọ na International School of the Sacred Heart na 1975 na Mahadum Brown na ndị ọkachamara na mmekọrịta mba ụwa na akụnụba mba ụwa.  N'afọ 1981, ọ malitere ịrụ ọrụ dịka onye nchịkọta akụkọ na onye edemede maka mgbasa ozi Bekee nke NHK Television's Seven O'clock News.  Malite na 1986, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye nyocha na United States maka NHK Special.  Ihe omume ndị e mesịrị gụnyere ihe ngosi akụkọ satịlaịtị na ala netwọk, gụnyere Asia Ugbu a (1990), nke Ụlọ Ọrụ Mgbasa Ozi Ọha na-eburu na U.S..

Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Tezukayama Gakuin Elementary School, International School of Sacred Heart na Brown University (Major: The Study of International Relations, Minor: International Economics).

In 1985, she married at the age of 28 and went to America due to her husband studying abroad. She became a full-time housewife in New York, but in 1986 she was in charge of the NHK New York General Office’s researchers and since 1987 was in charge of the World News (NHK BS1) newscasters stationed in the United States. She returned to her country in 1988.

Since April 5, 1993, when NHK NEWS 21 ended its program, she served as a regular caster for Today's Close-Up since the start of the program. On December 20, 2015, Kuniya’s resignation was communicated to the person in charge of Today's Close-Up from NHK editor-in-chief Noriyuki Oogi, and due to the program reorganization in fiscal 2016, information on Kuniya’s resignation from the program was reported, and Kuniya’s resignation as newscaster was announced in the news on the date of January 12, the same year.

Her husband is Shiro Kuniya, a lawyer (belonging to the Osaka Bar Association). There were even times when he appeared as a guest commentator in “Today's Close-Up”. Takeshi Okada, the former coach of the Japan national football team, was his classmate in his elementary school days.

The Japan Times reported in January 2016 that NHK was considering making changes to the Close-Up Gendai program, which may include the removal of Kuniya as host. Kuniya's eventual departure from the program in April 2016 came amid media reports of political pressure being exerted on Japanese broadcasters, criticism by visiting United Nations officials investigating freedom of expression and a steep decline in Japan's international ranking of press freedom by Reporters Without Borders.
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