Miki Takai

Miki Takai (; 28 December 1967 – 25 January 2023) was an announcer who belonged to Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS), and was the former deputy announcer of the Mainichi Broadcasting System.

She died suddenly during her tenure as "chief announcer". She is survived by one daughter .

Biography Born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, her biological father works for a trading company. She spent her kindergarten years in Portugal and her elementary school years 4–6 in the Netherlands because of her biological father's overseas assignment.

None of these countries corresponded to English-speaking countries, but it is said that she was good at English conversation from that time.

After returning to Japan from the Netherlands, she entered Nishinomiya Municipal Taisha Junior High School. After transferring to Kobe Municipal Motoyama Junior High School, she went on to Hyogo Prefectural Mikage High School, and she entered Kobe Jogakuin University's Faculty of Literature, Department of English Literature. She didn't aspire to be an announcer until she was a university student, but when she was in her fourth year, she was introduced by her friend and participated in the Mainichi Broadcasting "Announcement Seminar". Through this seminar, which doubled as an announcer employment exam, she was unofficially hired as an announcer. that Takai had died and that Takai's wake and funeral had already been held with only close relatives. On the next day (Friday), the obituary was announced to viewers and listeners through "Yonchan TV" and MBS radio's live wide program.

In principle, Mainichi Broadcasting does not publish the obituaries of its employees (excluding executives), but after the death of Takai, who was the current announcer, they said, "I will be in charge of various programs (until the first half of January 2023). Due to this relationship, we decided to announce it (as a special measure) in order to answer the question from the viewers, Why haven't you appeared (recently)?

The announcement of the obituary by Mainichi Broadcasting (2 February 2023) came as a great shock to Takai's officials, and a colleague's announcer announced Takai's death on his own program on the next day (Friday). On MBS Radio broadcast from 3:00 pm, "Fukushima Nobuhiro's Friday is fine?" A senior announcer who is a senior in Fukushima) looks back on Takai during his life in the opening talk. Fukushima said, "I've lost a veteran and excellent colleague, so I'm feeling sad (right now). I love broadcasting more than anyone else. He was the one who made the (studio) lively.” While remembering Takai, Sekioka, who used to be the announcement manager of Mainichi Broadcasting, said, I was watching it at my desk.I believe that listening to the usual broadcasts will be a memorial service for (Takai) Miki-chan." (detailed in the relevant section). In the same year, Takai appeared as a "listener" (an interviewer with management) until January 2023 in "The Leader" (a recorded program organized by Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation early in the morning on the second Sunday of every month). Ueda has been a "listener" since the broadcast on 12 March.

Takai participated in the studio recording (21 December 2022), which was supposed to be broadcast on 4 February 2023 (Saturday). In the subsequent studio recordings (broadcasts after 28 January 2023), except for some broadcasts, her junior announcer Saori Tsuji temporarily assumed Takai's role (navigator in the studio part). had taken over. However, since 4 February is the first broadcast day after Mainichi Broadcasting announced the obituary, the recorded studio footage will be broadcast according to the original schedule on that day. At the time of broadcasting, a telop indicating the recording date was added in the editing work, and a message video in memory of Takai was inserted in the ending part. Tsuji's appearance is only 4 times (on air, including after the announcement of his obituary), and the studio part is not included in the broadcast times until 22 April (or some scenes from the recorded studio part are omitted by editing. The composition continued, but from the broadcast on 29 April (both for Kansai local), Mirai Kaito (junior announcer who joined the company in 2022) was selected as the second navigator.

On MBS Radio, some of the programs recorded during her lifetime (such as "Earthquake Disaster Prevention Memo") and some of her commercials will be broadcast even after the announcement of her obituary. From 19 February 2023, Takai will appear on 11 January (Wednesday) in the "Japan's Brightest Economic Denpa Newspaper", which has organized the "Osaka/Kansai Expo Special" (special interview with the producer of the theme business) four times from 19 February 2023. The sound source of the interview recording (guest is Hiroshi Ishiguro) was broadcast on 19 and 26 February according to the original schedule. Furukawa is appearing again in the broadcast in March, but from 2 April, Hiroko Matsukawa (junior announcer) will formally assume the role of Takai (the title on the broadcast is "editorial staff"). has taken over.

In addition, "MBS Announcer Kotonoha Monogatari no Sekai 2023" was held at the Toyonaka Municipal Culture and Arts Center on 5 March 2023, as a paid performance twice in the afternoon and evening (some announcers participated in the project of the Mainichi Broadcasting Announcement Center). At the reading event), it was announced at the end of 2022 that Takai would participate in the reading of the daytime performance. Since he died suddenly in the middle of preparations starting in 2022, when the performance was held, his senior, Kaori Sekioka, who was originally scheduled to appear only in the evening performance (was the director of the announcement department when he was a TV and radio station). Senior announcer) also participated in the daytime performance. Kawata, who was entrusted with the leader of the performance, devoted himself to the progress of the afternoon and evening performances, and there was an act in which he remembered Takai while being deeply moved by the finale greeting.

Life Events

After joining Mainichi Broadcasting System and getting married, he lived in a two-story house in Higashinada Ward, Kobe City, but in the early morning of 17 January 1995, he encountered the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. her husband and Mrs. Miki Takai, who were asleep in their room on the second floor, barely escaped, but the damage was so severe that the first floor of their house was completely destroyed. She was telling the local misery with tears. According to a testimony in "MBS Baseball Park Extra Edition" (MBS Radio), which appeared on the phone on 25 July 2021, Kazuki Masuda, who was working as an announcer at the time, said, "Only on September 29th Three days before (the 26th), he was asked to stand by after the performance of 'VOICE', which he was in charge of at the time." It also appeared in the live broadcast of the final version of the national news on weekdays). It's been a long time since I was in charge of a sports program, so when I headed to the victory celebration venue, Katsuo Hirata, who used to be a baseball commentator for Mainichi Broadcasting (then head coach of the Hanshin 1st Army), said, "Miki-chan! You're beautiful." He also revealed that beer was suddenly thrown from behind, and that another announcer was scheduled to be in charge if Hanshin's victory was not decided on 29 September. Appeared in only one scene in the movie "Japan Sinks" (2006 version, MBS produced and invested). On 5 August 2006, she appeared on Kansai TV's "Nanbo DE Nambo" with a comment on Maiko Matsumoto, who appeared across the boundaries of the station as MBS representative. Takai himself has appeared as a guest on Kansai TV's "Knock is useless!" with Shingo Yamashiro, who co-starred in "Shingo Ni Touch!" at the time. He is also in charge of radio opening and closing announcements (previously Tomoko Yoshida and Chie Mikami were in charge). In addition, Asako Nishimura will be in charge of the radio closing announcement from April 2011, and Ai Matsui from January 2012. In the past, he had a blog called Hibi Komogomo on the announcer page on the Mainichi Broadcasting official website, but the frequency of updates was very low compared to other announcers, and in 2016 he updated it for the first time in 13 years (2018 Moved to the current "MBS Ana Blog" from April 2014). He has a habit of humming unexpectedly in places other than broadcasting, and it is used for regular news for MBS radio. She has been suffering from rhinitis for several years, and in late December 2019, she underwent submucosal submucosal nasal turbinate resection, nasal septum correction, and endoscopic sinus surgery.