Hiroko Kuniya
Japanese television announcer
Hiroko Kuniya (国谷裕子, Kuniya Hiroko) (born February 3, 1957) is a Japanese news presenter and journalist. Kuniya was born in Osaka Prefecture and graduated from International School of the Sacred Heart in 1975 and then Brown University with majors in international relations and international economics. In 1981, she began to work as a news caster and writer for the English-language broadcasts of NHK television's Seven O'clock News. Starting in 1986, she served as a researcher in the United States for NHK Special. Later assignments included satellite and ground network news shows, including Asia Now (1990), which was picked up in the U.S. by Public Broadcasting Service.
Brief personal life
She is from Osaka Prefecture. She is the second daughter of 3 sisters, and due to her father’s overseas service, she spent time in New York and San Francisco (United States of America) from her kindergarten days while going back and forth between Hong Kong and Japan from sixth grade in elementary school to middle school.
She graduated from Tezukayama Gakuin Elementary School, International School of the Sacred Heart and Brown University (Major: The Study of International Relations, Minor: International Economics).
She got a job at Procter & Gamble Sun Home (currently Procter & Gamble (P&G) Japan) and was in charge of sales strategy, but she resigned, saying, “In the end, I thought about why I had to sell as many cakes of soap as possible, my satisfaction ran out and I wound up quitting in a little less than one year.”
She used serving as a simultaneous interpreter, writer and researcher for NHK NEWS (NHK) English Broadcasting as an opportunity to enter the world of news with an introduction from an NHK special correspondent acquaintance. By the age of 26, she registered with a temp agency and the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, and engaged in overseas image checks, research, etc.
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