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Mayuko Wakuda
is a Japanese female announcer and news anchor for NHK. Wakuda previously is one of the anchors hosting NHK General TV's primetime news program ''News Watch 9''. Early years Wakuda was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. At age two, she moved with her family to Houston, Texas. She returned to Japan when she was five years old, and was raised in Kawasaki and Yokohama. Wakuda attended Joshigakuin Junior & Senior High School in Tokyo, graduating in 2007, where she belonged to a performing arts club and played straight plays and musicals in English language. She then went to University of Tokyo, one of Japan's most prestigious universities, from which she received the BEc degree in March 2011. As an undergraduate, she was a manager and trainer of the university's men's lacrosse club. Career After graduating from University of Tokyo in 2011, Wakuda was hired by NHK. Several months later she was sent to NHK Okayama Branch where she started her career as a broadcaster. In April 2014, ...
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Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanagawa Prefecture borders Tokyo to the north, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northwest and Shizuoka Prefecture to the west. Yokohama is the capital and largest city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Kawasaki, Sagamihara, and Fujisawa. Kanagawa Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast on Tokyo Bay and Sagami Bay, separated by the Miura Peninsula, across from Chiba Prefecture on the Bōsō Peninsula. Kanagawa Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with Yokohama and many of its cities being major commercial hubs and southern suburbs of Tokyo. Kanagawa Prefecture was the political and economic center of Japan du ...
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Yurie Omi
is a Japanese former announcer and news presenter, news anchor for NHK. She left NHK in March 2021. She was famous for being the co-host of NHK's morning talk show ''Asaichi'' as well as its geological television series ''Bura Tamori''. Early years Omi was born in Kōchi Prefecture, Kochi Prefecture, Japan and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Her father is a police officer. Her younger brother is a doctor. The beginning of Omi's media experience was early. At age 10, she joined Yomiuri Shimbun as a child journalist. She was involved in researching school-related topics and writing short columns on the newspaper until she was an 11th grader. Although her team members consisted of only those ranging from elementary school children to high school students, they did most of the tasks by themselves. They faxed presentation papers to parties, made appointments with the people they needed to interview to get necessary information, and wrote whole stories about what they investigated. Du ...
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Japanese Television Personalities
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Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world * Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law ** Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan * Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana * Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan See also * List of Japanese people * * Japonica (other) * Japonicum * Japonicus * Japanese studies Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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University Of Tokyo Alumni
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation). *Issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university i ...
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1988 Births
File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian Bicentenary, Bicentennial on January 26; The 1988 Summer Olympics are held in Seoul, South Korea; Soviet Union, Soviet troops begin their Soviet-Afghan War, withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is completed the 1989, next year; The 1988 Armenian earthquake kills between 25,000-50,000 people; The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar, led by students, protests the Burma Socialist Programme Party; A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 103, causing the plane to crash down on the town of Lockerbie, Scotland- the event kills 270 people., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Piper Alpha rect 200 0 400 200 Iran Air Flight 655 rect 400 0 600 200 Australian Bicentenary rect 0 200 300 400 Pan Am Flight 103 rect 300 200 600 400 1988 Summer Olympics rect 0 400 200 600 8888 ...
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Naoko Suzuki
is a Japanese news anchor and television personality for NHK. She is the anchor of NHK's morning talk show '' Asaichi''. Early years Suzuki was born in ''Yokohama'', Japan. She attended Hosei University and received a bachelor's degree in social sciences. Career During college, Suzuki joined Hosei University's Jishu Masukomi Kouza (Independent Mass Media Course). At the same time, she attended announce schools of NTV Events Inc. and TV-Asahi Ask Co. Ltd. to experience broadcasting. Suzuki was hired by NHK in April 2004. She was sent to NHK Takamatsu Broadcasting Station at Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture to start her broadcasting career. Two years later, she was relocated to Matsuyama Broadcasting Station in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. She served as Ambassador for Promotion of Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting for both of these stations and Okayama Broadcasting Station. In 2008, Suzuki was relocated to Tokyo Announcement Room to be the anchor of the regional TV program ''S ...
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Nonoka Akaki
is a Japanese female announcer and newscaster for NHK. Early years Born and raised in Okayama, Japan, Akaki graduated from Keio University. During college, she won the Runner Up title in the Yukata Beauty Contest, Tokyo's local beauty pageant. Career After graduating from Keio University in 2013, Akaki was hired by NHK and started her career at NHK Tokushima Branch, where she worked until March 2015. In April 2015, she was relocated to NHK Osaka Branch, where she hosted ''News Hot Kansai''. In March 2017, Akaki was moved to Tokyo Announcement Room and appointed as a biweekly newscaster of NHK's morning news show ''NHK News Ohayō Nippon'' as well as Yurie Omi. At the same time, she co-hosts an information program ''Naming Variety Nipponjin no Onamae!'' (currently ''Nipponjin no Onamae'') with Ichiro Furutachi. On February 21, 2018, NHK has announced that Akaki is leaving ''NHK News Ohayō Nippon'' and being an anchor for ''Shinsedai ga Toku! Nippon no Dilemma'' from April 2 ...
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Minori Chiba
is a Japanese female announcer for NHK. She was born in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Career Graduating from Hosei University, Chiba was hired by NHK in 2012 as Announcer. She worked for NHK Yamagata Branch from 2012 to 2015, and NHK Sendai Branch from 2015 to 2017. In April 2017, Chiba moved to Tokyo and joined ''NHK News Ohayō Nippon ''NHK News Ohayō Nippon'' ( ja, NHKニュース おはよう日本, en, NHK News Good Morning Japan)is a Japanese morning television show on NHK General TV, anchored mainly by Masayuki Sanjo and Nachiko Shudo, from the NHK studios at NHK ...''. She became one of navigators for this program's "Machikado Jōhōshitsu (Street Information Room)" segment, where she introduced inventions that helped make people's life more convenient. She is a reporter for its "Shuntaikan" segment on the last Sunday of every month. Chiba is also a main presenter for ''Sandwichman's Tenshi no Tsukuriwarai'' aired on NHK Radio 1. On February 21, 2018, NHK annou ...
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Wataru Abe
Wataru is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Wataru can be written using several kanji characters. Here are some examples: *渉, "ford" *渡, "ferry over" *亘, "extend across" *航, "navigate" *和, "harmony" *亙, "extend across" *弥, "more and more" The name can also be written in hiragana わたる or katakana ワタル. Notable people with the name *, Japanese announcer, television personality, and news anchor * Wataru Asō (麻生 渡, born 1939), governor of Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan *, Japanese footballer * Wataru Fukuda (福田 亘, born 1964), Japanese actor *, Japanese footballer * Wataru Hatano (羽多野 渉, born 1982), Japanese voice actor * Wataru Hokoyama (鋒山 亘, born 1974), music composer *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese footballer * Wataru Ishijima (石島 渉, 1906–1980), paleontologist and geologist * Wataru Ito (伊藤 渉, born 1969), Japanese politician * Wataru Kamimura (上村 亘, born 1986), Japanese shogi pla ...
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Kozo Takase
is a Japanese announcer and news anchor for NHK. Early years Born and raised in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, Takase graduated from Waseda University. He belonged to a glee club as an undergraduate. Career Takase was hired by NHK in April 1999, and started his career at NHK Niigata Branch. In April 2008, Takase was moved to Tokyo Announcement Room and appointed as a biweekly newscaster of NHK's morning news show ''NHK News Ohayō Nippon'', where he starred from 4:30 to 5:55 am until March 2010. He also hosted ''Gekkan Toretate My Video'' from April 2009 to March 2010. From April 2010 to March 2011, he was involved in reporting from Diet. In April 2011, Takase joined ''NHK News 7'' as an assistant newscaster, starring on weekends until April 2012. He then became a newsreader for the news program aired at noon. In May 2015, he also presented at ''News Shibu Goji'' as a newsreader. From April 2016 to April 2017, he was an anchor of ''NHK News 7'' for the weekend. In Apri ...
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