List of Japanese announcers

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.