Voice acting in Japan is an industry where actors provide voice-overs as characters or narrators in media including anime, video games, audio dramas, commercials, and dubbing for non-Japanese films and television programs.
TBS Holdings, Inc., formerly Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings, Inc., is a Japanese media and licensed broadcasting holding company. It is the parent company of the television network TBS Television and radio network TBS Radio. It has a 28-affiliate television network called Japan News Network, as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called Japan Radio Network.
The mass media in Japan include numerous television and radio networks as well as newspapers and magazines in Japan. For the most part, television networks were established based on capital investments by existing radio networks. Variety shows, serial dramas, and news constitute a large percentage of Japanese evening shows.
WFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station licensed to East Orange, New Jersey. Since 1998, it has been headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. It broadcasts in northeast New Jersey at 91.1 Mhz FM, to New York City and Rockland County via a repeater at 91.9 FM, and in the Hudson Valley, the Lower Catskills, western New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania from Mount Hope, New York at 90.1 via the repeater station WMFU. It is the longest-running free-form radio station in the U.S. The station's main terrestrial transmitter is located in West Orange, New Jersey.
Japan FM Network is a Japanese commercial radio network. It was founded in 1981.
Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Inc. is a Japanese radio station in Tokyo which broadcasts to the Kanto area. It is one of the two flagship radio stations of National Radio Network (NRN) and is a member of the Fujisankei Communications Group.
Peter Barakan is an English-born DJ, freelance broadcaster, and an author of books on music and English language education. He is best known as the presenter of Begin Japanology and Japanology Plus on NHK World. In Japan, he is known as the radio host of "Barakan Beat" on InterFM, "Weekend Sunshine" on NHK FM, and Lifestyle Museum on Tokyo FM. Barakan also curates "Live Magic!", presented by CreativeMan Productions, Tower Records, and InterFM. It is a two-day festival intent on promoting obscure western artists to a wider Japanese audience.
Kev Gray & The Gravy Train are an alternative pop rock band formed in Tokyo in November 2008, with members from America, Canada, England and Japan. After being chosen as a feature band in the government-sponsored, UK-Japan Year 2008, the group achieved mixed success on the Japanese music scene, after signing to Hemlock Music and twice winning the national music award, Gaijin Sounds.
"Killer-tune" is a song by Japanese rock band Tokyo Jihen, led by musician Ringo Sheena. It was released as the band's fifth single on August 22, 2007, as one of the two singles before the band's third album Variety (2007). The song was written by the band's pianist Ichiyo Izawa, with lyrics by Sheena.
Takeshi Saito, better known by his stage name Neko Saito, is a Japanese violinist, conductor, composer and music arranger. Saito is the leader of the Saito Neko Quartet, and is known for his many collaborations with musician Ringo Sheena.
Marie Ueda is a Japanese singer-songwriter. In 2008, she made Indies debut and in 2014 under Giza Studio label. In 2023, she departure from the agency Being and has resumed her activities as an independent singer.
Renka (蓮花) is a Japanese pop singer and songwriter under the Being label.
Ghostroads – A Japanese Rock N Roll Ghost Story is a 2017 Japanese rock n roll comedy film conceived and produced by Mike "in Tokyo" Rogers and written by Rogers and James Honeycutt. It was directed by Enrico Ciccu and co-produced and edited by Ken Nishikawa. It stars Japanese Rock musicians Mr. Pan of The Neatbeats, Tatsuji Nobuhara of the Privates, Danny of the 50 Kaitenz, Darrell Harris, Los Angeles cultural icon and radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, and American filmmaker Kansas Bowling.
Shaula Vogue is a Japanese-American radio and television presenter, DJ and fashion model raised in Honolulu and, as of 2023, living in Japan. She hosts Recorrer on InterFM plus 25 JFN stations nationwide and cohosts Design Talks Plus and Biz Stream, as well as her own podcast Greenhouse Radio with Shaula.
Eva Hadashi is a Ukrainian scholar, Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Philology, japanologist, musicologist, writer, singer, TV and radio personality. A researcher of Western influences on the Japanese musical art in Meiji period, a laureate of International Literary Contest Coronation of the Word for the novel Western Geisha (2019).
Misa Tamagawa is a radio show host from Osaka, Japan. She is known for previously hosting "The Nutty Radio Show Onitama" on NACK5 and "Misa Tamagawa's Tamanavi" on JOQR.
Guy Richard Perryman MBE is a British radio personality, narrator, voice actor, producer and writer. He works in Japan principally as broadcaster with radio station InterFM, voice narrator with television station NHK World, and is a former Executive Committee member of the British Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
Radio Fukushima Co., Ltd., abbreviated rfc, is a Japanese commercial radio station licensed to broadcast in Fukushima Prefecture. The station is the only commercial AM radio station in the prefecture, being affiliated to the two AM radio networks. Unlike many other radio stations that have subsequently set up television stations, Radio Fukushima remains exclusive to radio, as the TV license it had applied was subsequently expired.
