Makoto Hoshi announcer (from NHK official website)
It was announced on the 12th that NHK announcer Makoto Hoshi (32) will be the main anchor of the station’s signature news program “News Watch 9″ starting in April. It will be officially announced soon. The program has previously featured the station’s most popular announcers, including Maho Kuwako (36) and Mayuko Wakuda (35). A source at the station said, “He has a solid track record and will be the ace candidate to lead NHK in the future.”
The star announcer is the eldest daughter of former TBS announcer Takae Mikumo (69), and comes from a family of journalists whose grandfather was Shiro Mikumo, who also served as a director at Sankei Shimbun. From 2022, she will host the “Sunday Debate,” where she will use her reliable announcing skills to interact with politicians, and her ability has been highly evaluated.
In fact, he is attracting attention from anime fans as well. In 2020, he was in charge of the live broadcast of “Kyo wa Gundam Zanmai Z”, which was broadcast on NHK-FM for more than 8 hours. Since he was new to Gundam, other performers constantly corrected his intonation when saying battleship names. The series has won the hearts of anime fans, with messages of support coming in from viewers in response to their struggles.
The studio will consist of three people: a male reporter from the political department who has experience as a correspondent for the United States, and a female reporter from the international department who also served as a correspondent for the United States. With this selection, he is expected to play the role of NHK’s ace announcer. A source from the station said, “His name will be the first to be mentioned as a successor to announcer Wakuda, who is preparing to give birth to her second child.”
◇Hoshi Makoto Born in 1991 (Heisei 3), 32 years old from Tokyo. After graduating from Keio University, she joined NHK in 2014. After working at Okayama Broadcasting Station and Sapporo Broadcasting Station, she moved to the Tokyo Announcement Office in 2019. Her hobby is cooking.
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