is a Japanese announcer and

news anchor A news presenter – also known as a newsreader, newscaster (short for "news broadcaster"), anchorman or anchorwoman, news anchor or simply an anchor – is a person who presents news during a news program on TV, radio or the Internet. ...

for

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestr ...

Early years

Born and raised in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture,

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, Takase graduated from

Waseda University , abbreviated as , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the ''Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō'' by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the school was formally renamed Waseda University in 1902. The university has numerou ...

. 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 ''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 ...

'', 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 is the early evening news program broadcast domestically on NHK General TV and internationally on NHK World Premium. It has been on the air daily since April 5, 1993, from 7:00pm to 7:30pm ( JST).

'' 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 April 2017, Takase was appointed the main presenter for ''NHK News Ohayō Nippon'', where he anchored with

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 ...

and

Maho Kuwako is an announcer and news anchor at NHK, Japan's public broadcaster. She currently anchors NHK's ''Close-up Gendai'' current affairs program. Kuwako was born, raised, and educated in Kawasaki, Japan, and graduated from the School of Language an ...

. On February 9, 2022, NHK announced that Takase was supposed to step down from the job of the anchor of ''NHK News Ohayō Nippon'' together with Kuwako in April. He will host the evening program ''News Live! Yu Goji'' from April.

Personal life

When Takase worked for NHK Niigata Branch, he met and married Misaki Kawano, who was an announcer for Television Niigata Network.

References

External links

Kozo Takase, Tokyo Announcement Room

Takase Kozo
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