Yusuke Mine, is a Japanese-born actor who is probably best known for his role on the 26-lesson TV program Let's Learn Japanese

Let's Learn Japanese

Let's Learn Japanese is a video-based Japanese language study course for English speakers produced by The Japan Foundation.The two seasons were originally aired on television at a rate of one episode per day, with each episode consisting of two lessons...

. On the program, he performed in skits that contained the sentence patterns that each episode focused on and assisted viewers with the day's material with pronunciation drills. He also lent his voice to the pronunciation of hiragana

Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet . Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each character represents one mora...

characters.

Apart from Let's Learn Japanese Basic I, he has performed in several stage plays in Japan. He is married and lives with his spouse in Tokyo, Japan.

Characters

Yusuke has portrayed the following characters on Let's Learn Japanese Basic I:

1. Prison Inmate
2. Painter
3. Mechanic
4. Waiter
5. Bar Tender (Lesson 10)
6. TV Weatherman
7. Police Officer (Koban)
8. Doctor
9. Veterinarian
10. Detective (Lesson 11)
11. Jewelry Store Clerk
12. Father (Lesson 11)
13. Gymnastics Judge (Lesson 21)
14. Hospital Inpatient (Lesson 11)
15. Office Worker (Lesson 7)
16. Mover