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Shinichi Tanioka

Japanese announcer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ11632834 ↗
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Shinichi Tanioka (谷岡 慎一, Tanioka Shin'ichi; born 16 February 1987) is a Japanese announcer for Fuji Television.

Personal life

On May 11, 2017, he officially married Maho Kuwako, an NHK announcer. The Sankei Sports newspaper wrote that Tanioka and Kuwako were divorcing just one year after their marriage. Tanioka announced that he remarried in November 2020 to an unnamed spouse.

Current programmes

In the broadcast on 23 March 2017, he appeared as part of Fuji TV male announcers team and did the commentary during the 3rd game Pinball Runner.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shinichi Tanioka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.