Kaitai-Shin Show
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is a Japanese TV program broadcast on NHK
General TV
which had been broadcast since 2007 until 2009.
This program started on 2006 as a segment on Bangumi Tamago, hosted by Yumiko Udō, an announcer of NHK, and Lasa-R Ishii. It started regular broadcasting, hosted by Taichi Kokubun
and Yuka Kubota, an announcer of NHK Shizuoka (Kubota transferred to Tokyo on March 2008), on April 14, 2007. Two comedians present information about the human body and professors support their presentation and also explain it. The audiences judge which presentation is easy to understand or interesting. The broadcasting finished on March 13, 2009.
NHK
NHK is Japan's national public broadcasting organization. NHK, which has always identified itself to its audiences by the English pronunciation of its initials, is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee....
General TV
NHK General TV
is the main television service of NHK . It shows news, drama, quiz/variety shows, music, sports, anime and specials which directly compete with its commercial counterparts. It is well known for its nightly newscasts, regular documentary specials and popular historical dramas...
which had been broadcast since 2007 until 2009.
Introduction
This program is about the human body.This program started on 2006 as a segment on Bangumi Tamago, hosted by Yumiko Udō, an announcer of NHK, and Lasa-R Ishii. It started regular broadcasting, hosted by Taichi Kokubun
Tokio (band)
Tokio is a Japanese rock/pop band formed by Johnny & Associates that debuted in 1994. It is made up of five men who were signed with Sony Music Entertainment from 1994 to 2001, with Universal Music Japan from 2001 to 2008, and are now signed under J Storm, a label owned by Johnny & Associates...
and Yuka Kubota, an announcer of NHK Shizuoka (Kubota transferred to Tokyo on March 2008), on April 14, 2007. Two comedians present information about the human body and professors support their presentation and also explain it. The audiences judge which presentation is easy to understand or interesting. The broadcasting finished on March 13, 2009.
Cast
- Taichi Kokubun - Host
- Yuka Kubota - NHK announcer
- Gekidan Hitori - presenter
- Kirin (Hiroshi Tamura and Akira Kawashima) - presenter
- Penalty (Hideki Nakagawa and Yasuhito Wakita) - presenter
- Takanori Takeyama - presenter
- Kunihiro Matsumura - presenter
- Dachō Club - (Ryuhei Ueshima, Jimon Terakado, and Katsuhiro Higo)- presenter
- Hakata Hanamaru Daikichi - presenter
Narrator
- Aya HiranoAya Hiranofrom Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer who has had roles in several anime, visual novels, and TV commercials in Japan. She was contracted to Space Craft Produce, a branch of the Space Craft Group, for her voice acting career, and for her singing career,...
- she appeared on this show as a guest on August 4, 11, November 24, and December 29.