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