Television personalities in Japan, known as tarento in Japanese, are celebrities who regularly appear in mass media in Japan, especially as panelists on variety shows.
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi hosts a daytime talk show Tetsuko's Room (徹子の部屋, Tetsuko no Heya). This program, as of 2022, has been broadcast for 47 years and more than 11,000 times, repeatedly winning Guinness World Records.
Takeshi Kitano
Shoko Nakagawa
Shōfukutei Tsurube II
Dave Spector
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Dave Spector is an American gaijin tarento, television producer, author, and actor based in Japan. Originally from Chicago, he moved to Japan in 1983 after visiting as a producer with the American tel
Television personalities in Japan
…other tarento, and are cast differently depending on their ethnicities. In the 1991 documentary "The Japanese Version", veteran foreign personality, Dave Spector, stated, "[I'm] doing things like the lowest bozo, circus kind of stuff. But it doesn't bother me at all. A lot of times the foreigners on TV, models…
Spector at the 27th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2014