Maki Okazoe

is a Japanese TV announcer, news presenter and tarento. She is represented by her agency cent. Force.

Life and career

Okazoe attended the Osaka Tōin Junior and Senior High School and Waseda University with a degree in Creative Writing and Criticism at the School of Culture, Media and Society. She participated in the "2011 Miss Waseda Contest" beauty pageant in her 1st year at Waseda and was active as a fashion model during her college years.

She signed with the agency, Sprout Co, in 2014 and became the regular weather presenter for the news program Mezamashi TV at Fuji TV.

In March 2015, Okazoe graduated from Waseda University

Okazoe was ranked 4th in Oricon's The 12th Most Liked Weather Caster Ranking List, and gained popularity while appearing on many variety shows. She continued to thrive in the industry as a TV announcer and news caster, specializing in weather and sports.

In 2019, she expanded her field of career to include radio talk show with her own radio program on Nippon Cultural Broadcasting called Okazoe Maki no Hokuhokuta Imu, which broadcasts every Thursday night.

On 6 April 2022, she married with a racing driver Naoya Gamou.

Character Interests are reading historical fiction novels, taking strolls, going to pet stores. She has around 15 years of experience in swimming and water polo. She was a part of the swimming club and the finswimming club at Waseda University. She was the winner of the 2012, 24th Japan National Finswimming Representatives Competition – 1500m Women's Bifin. She was also featured on the cover of the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits, wearing competitive swimwear in 2014. In addition to finswimming, she also does long-distance swimming as a hobby. She is very flexible and is able to do a perfect 180-degree split. Her flexibility was a trending topic when she performed it on Mezamashi TV. She also demonstrated her flexibility in the ball opening ceremony at a Chiba Lotte Marines game. Her inspirations are the former sportscaster and tennis player, Shuzo Matsuoka, Her high school classmates included Sayuri Matsumura from the idol group Nogizaka46 and pro baseball player Naoya Emura from the Chiba Lotte Marines. She is a high school baseball fan and attends the Koshien and the Meiji Jingu Baseball Tournament as a fan every year. In elementary school, she was ranked 1st in her class' "Biggest airhead ranking list".

Past Programs (Fuji TV, 2014/09–2016/04) – Presenter (weather, sports) (Fuji TV, 2014/09–2017/09) – Presenter (sports) (Fuji TV, 2017/08) (BS Fuji, 2018/10–2019/03)

Radio (NCB, 2019–) What's JOGIN (FM Fuji, 2013/05)

Web TV (AbemaTV, 2018/12/30) – Assistant

Video games (Konami, 2016) – Secretary

Commercials Konami (2016/03–)