TBS Risa Unai, Yasumi Yoshihara, Fuji Yumi Nagashima, NHK Anna Nakagawa… Farewell images of female announcers who left the station in ’25

The “Announcer retirement age of 30” theory persists!

I have decided to graduate from all programs, including this “Mimi Kin” program, and leave TBS after the end of this year’s on-air broadcasts.”

On December 5, TBS announcer Yasumi Yoshihara (30) appeared live on the station’s radio program “Imada Koji no Omimi Haiyaku,” where she works as an assistant!　Friday,” in which she serves as an assistant, and announced that she would be leaving the station. She explained the reason for her departure,

He said that he was turning 30 this year, and that he was “reaching a milestone” and “facing up to my career.”

He said he was leaving the station because, “I’m turning 30 this year, and I feel like I’m reaching a milestone,

“I will take on other challenges, and I will make an announcement in due course,” he said.

He also said that he would “take on other challenges and make an announcement in the near future.

On December 1, Marino Fujimoto, 30, a Fuji TV announcer, updated her SNS. She announced that she would graduate from “Mezamashi TV” and “Sanma’s Comedy Improvement Committee,” in which she had appeared regularly, by the end of the year, and that she would leave the station on December 31.

This year alone, Yumi Nagashima (34), Keiko Tsubakihara (40), and Risa Kishimoto (26) have all left Fuji Television, making Fujimoto the sixth. Some media reported that the series of problems at Fuji Television, triggered by Masahiro Nakai’s (53) troubles with women, may have hastened the decision of female announcers who were originally considering leaving the company. Some media reported that “female announcers who were originally considering leaving Fuji Television may have hastened their decision.

NHK’s Anna Nakagawa, 32, became a freelance announcer in April of this year, and TBS’s Risa Unai, 34, resigned in March of the same year. I was devoting 99% of my life to work.

I devoted 99% of my life to my work. It was rewarding, but I wondered if I could continue to live a life that was all about work. It was my husband (who married a civilian man in 2011) who pushed me. He knew I was pushing myself too hard and told me to quit.

Currently, Unouchi is streaming video games on Twitch, a service she started after leaving the company, on a daily basis in between work and household chores.

Considering that most of these women retired around the age of 30, the “female TV announcer retirement age of 30” theory may have deep roots. It is a pity that we will no longer be able to see them on terrestrial TV, but we wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors and look back on their time as female TV announcers with these images.