Akiko Yagi

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| name = Akiko Yagi

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| native_name = 八木亜希子

| native_name_lang = ja

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|6|24}}

| birth_place = Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

| nationality = Japanese

| other_names = {{hlist|{{nihongo|Akko|あっこ}}|{{nihongo|Yagi-chan|八木ちゃん}}}}

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| education = Waseda University Faculty of Letters Department of Psychology

| occupation = {{hlist|Announcer|tarento|television presenter|newscaster}}

| years_active = 1988–present

| agent = {{hlist|Kyodo Television|Phonics}}

| known_for = {{hlist|Akashiya Santa no Shijō Saidai no Christmas Present Show|Mezamashi TV|Amachan|BS Fuji Live: Prime News}}

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| website = {{official website|http://www.phonics.co.jp/profiles/yagiakiko.html|Official profile}}

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{{nihongo|Akiko Yagi|八木亜希子|Yagi Akiko|born 24 June 1965, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan}}{{cite web|url=http://www.phonics.co.jp/profiles/yagiakiko.html|title=八木亜希子|work=Phonics|language=ja|accessdate=6 Nov 2016}} is a Japanese free announcer, tarento, television presenter, newscaster, and actress. She is represented with Phonics. She is a former Fuji Television announcer from 1988 to 2000. She is the ambassador of Kanagawa Tourism.

Current appearances

Year ! Title ! Network ! Notes ! Ref.
class="wikitable"
1990	Akashiya Santa no Shijō Saidai no Christmas Present Show	Fuji TV	Appeared every year at Christmas Eve
2013	Akiko Yagi no oshaberi Museum	BS Fuji	Irregular appearances
rowspan="3"\| 2015	Kikinikui Koto o Kiku	TV Asahi		{{cite web\|url=http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2059455/full/\|title=タカトシ&サンド、"聞きにくい事を聞く"新番組のテーマに不安\|language=ja\|publisher=Oricon\|date=19 Sep 2015\|accessdate=6 Nov 2016}}
Akiko Yagi: Love & Melody	NBS
Shūkan City Promotion: Gotōji Saturday	J:Com TV

As a freelancer

=TV series=

Year ! Title ! Network ! Notes
class="wikitable"
rowspan="2"\| 2000	FNS Haru no Saiten 2000	Fuji TV
Bakushō Sokkuri monomane Benishiroutagassen Special	Fuji TV
2001	FNN Hōdō Tokubetsu Bangumi: Crown Princess Masako's birth to Aiko	Fuji TV	Co-presented with Yūko Andō
2007	Akashiya-san channel	Tokyo Broadcasting System
2008	Hiroshi Kume no TVtteyatsuha!?	MBS
2009	BS Fuji Live: Prime News	BS Fuji	Monthly appearances
2014	Kurenai Research	TV Asahi
2015	Onna no Karada Atari Search Bangumi: Naze? Soko?	TV Asahi

=TV drama=

Year ! Title ! Role ! Network ! Notes ! Ref.
class="wikitable"
2001	Joshi-ana.		Fuji TV	Episode 1; Guest appearance
2013	Amachan	Yoshie Adachi	NHK	Asadora
2015	Murder on the Orient Express	Sonoko Kureta	Fuji TV	Miniseries
rowspan="2"\| 2016	Hiru no Saint Sake	Shoko Dozono	TV Tokyo		{{cite web\|url=http://natalie.mu/comic/news/178075\|title=久住昌之の銭湯×昼酒エッセイ「昼のセント酒」ドラマ化、主演は戸次重幸\|work=Comic Natalie\|language=ja\|publisher=Natasha\|date=2 Mar 2016\|accessdate=6 Nov 2016}}{{cite web\|url=http://www.cinemacafe.net/article/2016/03/02/38360.html\|title=戸次重幸、「昼のセント酒」実写化で銭湯巡り＆尻出し！「ポロリしないように…」\|language=ja\|publisher=Cinema Today\|date=2 Mar 2016\|accessdate=6 Nov 2016}}
Sanada Maru	Ono no Otsū	NHK	Taiga drama
2017	Rikuoh	Narrator	TBS

=Radio=

Year ! Title ! Network ! Notes
class="wikitable"
2001	Tokyo Concierge	J-Wave
rowspan="2"\| 2007	Akiko Yagi to Tadashi Kakihana no Sound Collection	NBS
Tadashi Kaikihana no anata to Happy!	NBS	Thursday personality
2014	Akiko Yagi: Cafe doyōbi	NBS
2015	Akiko Yagi: Love & Melody	NBS

=Films=

Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes ! Ref.
class="wikitable"
1994	Rampo	Kōda-chō's daughter
1997	Dog of Flanders	Mylene (voice)
1998	Ohaka ganai!	Yumeno
2001	Minna no Ie	Tamiko Iijima	Quasi-protagonist; won the Japan Academy Prize rookie actor award	{{cite news\|title=Nikkan Gendai\|date=23 Jul 2013}}
2006	The Uchōten Hotel	Customer
2007	Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust	Herself
rowspan="2"\| 2008	Flying Rabitts	Cabin attendant
Suspect X	Newscaster
2017	Sensei!

=Advertisements=

Title ! Notes
class="wikitable"
Rakuten Communications
Suntory Malts
Kao Corporation Clearclean
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical deodorant soap
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi	Played with Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII

During her Fuji TV career

=News and informal programmes=

Year ! Title ! Notes
class="wikitable"
rowspan="2"\| 1988	FNN Super Time	Weather caster
Otenki Channel
1989	FNN Morning Call	Monday and Tuesday appearances
rowspan="3"\| 1990	Konya wa Kōkishin!	Reporter
Antenna Hot 7	Monday to Wednesday appearances
FNN Newscom	Friday appearances
1991	Professional Baseball News	Presenter
1993	Ohayō! Nice Day	Sunday appearances
1994	Mezamashi TV	Presenter
1997	Mezamashi TV Shumatsu-Go!	Presenter
1998	FNN Super News	Main caster

=TV variety=

Year ! Title ! Notes
class="wikitable"
1989	Waratte Iitomo!	Telephone announcer
rowspan="3"\| 1991	Hatsumōde! Bakushō Hit Parade
FNS Super Special 1 Oku-ri no TV Yumerettō	As part of the General Chair
Gold Rush!
rowspan="3"\| 1993	Yoru no Hit Studio Returns Special
Tonosama no Pheromone
Akashiya Sanma no Sports suru zo! Dai Hōsō	Appeared in a total of 11 times
1994	Shinshun Kakushigei Taikai
1995	Entame yuenchi: Tokyo Ijū Keikaku
1996	Heisei Kyōiku TV	As part of the traveling engagement
rowspan="2"\| 1997	That's Otaiba Entertainment
Masatoshi Nakamura no Zettai! Shirita gari
1999	FNS 30-shūnen '99 Aki no Saiten
2000	Kore ga Toshi no Sa nantedaro!?

=Video games=

Title ! Role ! Notes
class="wikitable"
Samurai Shodown	Kei Odagiri
World Class Baseball: Super Power League 3	Professional baseball newscaster
World Class Baseball: Super Power League FX	Professional baseball newscaster	Appeared with Kenji Fukui