, Chikushi Tetsuya, 23 June 1935 – 7 November 2008 was a Japanese journalist, TV presenter 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. ...
.
Career
Chikushi was born in
Hita, Ōita
is a city located in Ōita Prefecture, Japan that was founded on December 11, 1940. It is an agricultural and industrial centre that primarily produces lumber, furniture, and pottery. Its attractions and scenic beauty also make it a popular tour ...
on 23 June 1935. He 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 ...
's school of political science and economics, and joined the ''
Asahi Shimbun
is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and ...
'' newspaper in 1959 as a reporter.
[The Mainichi Daily News]
"Celebrity journalist Tetsuya Chikushi loses battle with lung cancer" (7 November 2008)
Retrieved on 7 November 2008.
He worked for the ''Asahi Shimbuns political news department,
Okinawa
is a prefecture of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan, has a population of 1,457,162 (as of 2 February 2020) and a geographic area of 2,281 km2 (880 sq mi).
Naha is the capital and largest city ...
bureau, and Washington bureau, before being appointed as managing editor of the ''Asahi Journal'' magazine.
[
He later resigned from the ''Asahi Shimbun'' to become the anchorman of TBS's ''News 23'' late-night news programme in October 1989.
He left TBS's ''News 23'' in May 2007 after announcing on air that he was suffering from cancer.][
He died of lung cancer on 7 November 2008 at a hospital in Tokyo, aged 73.][ He was a guest professor of Waseda University and ]Ritsumeikan University
is a private university in Kyoto, Japan, that traces its origin to 1869. With the Kinugasa Campus (KIC) in Kyoto, and Kyoto Prefecture, the university also has a satellite called Biwako-Kusatsu Campus (BKC) and Osaka-Ibaraki Campus (OIC).
Tod ...
.[http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/mng/gl/koho/headline/info/2006/06/kyakuin.pdf ]
See also
* Tokyo Broadcasting System Television
JORX-DTV, branded as is the flagship station of the Japan News Network (JNN), owned-and-operated by , a subsidiary of JNN's owner, TBS Holdings. It operates in the Kantō region and broadcasts its content nationally through TBS-JNN Networ ...
* Aum Shinrikyo
, formerly , is a Japanese doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. It carried out the deadly Tokyo subway sarin attack in 1995 and was found to have been responsible for the Matsumoto sarin attack the previous year.
The group says tha ...
References
External links
TBS "News 23"
1935 births
2008 deaths
Deaths from lung cancer in Japan
Japanese broadcast news analysts
Japanese editors
Japanese reporters and correspondents
Japanese television personalities
The Asahi Shimbun people
People from Ōita Prefecture
Academic staff of Ritsumeikan University
Academic staff of Waseda University
Waseda University alumni
20th-century journalists
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