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Kenji Fukui (福井 謙二, Fukui Kenji, born September 8, 1953, in Hiroshima) is a Japanese television announcer. He began his broadcasting career in 1976 with Fuji Television, and was one of the three longest-serving television presenters on the Fuji network, before he quit the station in 2013.
- 10 Chairman Kaga
- 9 Kenji Fukui
- 8 Dr. Yukio Hattori
- 7 Shinichiro Onta
- 6 Iron Chef Japanese Rokusaburo Michiba
- 5 Iron Chef Chinese Chen Kenichi
- 4 Iron Chef Japanese Masaharu Morimoto
- 3 Iron Chef French Yutaka Ishinabe
- 2 Iron Chef French Hiroyuki Sakai
- 1 Iron Chef Italian Masahiko Kobe
The show was hosted by Chairman Kaga, a character played by famous Japanese actor Takeshi Kaga. Kaga’s eccentric presentation of the competition’s theme ingredient and his foppish and bright clothes were as fun to watch as the chefs cooking. Today Kaga continues to act and has starred in several Japanese shows and films as well as several plays.
Fukui has been a television announcer for his entire career, but he is best known for his time as the play-by-play announcer of Iron Chef. Fukui continues to host today and now works on the show Tamori Japonica Logos. He is one of the longest-working hosts on the Fuji network.
Hattori is a culinary and nutritional expert with a Ph.D. from Show University. He is the fifth president of the Hattori Nutritional College. Along with Fukui, he was one of the regular play-by-play announcers for the show. He also appeared on the show as a challenger chef in 2 episodes. In addition to his academics, he continues to do cooking show...
While Hattori and Fukui sat in the booth watching the play-by-play, Onta was the show's stadium side reporter, who would conduct the after-game interviews with chefs and help with the play-by-play, similar to a sports announcer. Onta is now a voice actor who has done multiple Japanese films and video games and provided the Japanese dubbing for seve...
Rokusaburo Michiba was the first Iron Chef of Japanese Cuisine before retiring from the show around 1996. He continued to make appearances on the show occasionally as a guest and sometimes as a competitor or sponsor of competitors who were his apprentices. Already a successful restaurateur before the show, upon retirement he continued his work as a...
The original Iron Chef show was very male-dominated, as one can tell, and for some reason when female competitors came on the show, Chen Kenichi was the one who was picked on (he lost more to women chefs than any other Iron Chef did). An expert in Shezuan cooking with the nickname the “Sichuan Sage”, Kenichi continues to run his numerous award-winn...
When the original Iron Chef Japanese Rokusaburo Michiba retired, he took several months researching to find his perfect replacement. He decided the best fit was Masaharu Morimoto, who originally started as a sushi chef and worked his way to becoming the leader of fusion techniques in Japanese cuisine. Since the original Iron Chef, Morimoto has cont...
Although his tenure on the show was the shortest, Yutaka Ishinabe was still labeled an Honorary Iron Chef along with Michiba after doing just 8 battles for the series. Ishinabe allegedly left the show because the time constraints were too stressful for him, and he was not happy with the taster's reviews of his final battle, which he lost. After the...
Hiroyuki Sakai was Ishanabe’s replacement as the Iron Chef of French Cuisine and he remained with the show until the very end and appeared with Masaharu Morimoto on the debut of Iron Chef America. Sakai’s claim to fame was his combination of French recipes with Japanese cooking methods. In the final battles of the series, Sakai won the title of “Ki...
Kobe was the last chef to join the show and the youngest. He was the only Iron Chef of Italian cuisine the show ever had, and his addition always seemed to have been awkwardly handled by the show’s producers, almost as if they realized “wait a minute, this show has been on for 7 seven seasons, and we don’t have anyone doing Italian food!” Therefore...
Throughout the cook-off, running commentary is made in a booth near the cooking area by an announcer, Kenji Fukui; a commentator, Yukio Hattori, and one or two of the guest judges, with one floor reporter (sometimes two; normally Shinichiro Ohta) providing details of the action on each side.
Kenji Fukui is known for Iron Chef (1993), Honto Ni Atta! Riaru Toshi Densetsu Jyubaku (2014) and Welcome to Irabu's Office (2009).
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Kenji Fukui is a Japanese television announcer. He began his broadcasting career in 1976 with Fuji Television, and is currently one of the three longest-serving television presenters on the Fuji network.
Kenji FUKUI. You can contribute information to this page, but first you must login or register. Cast in: Welcome to Irabu's Office (TV) as Fukuicchi. This encyclopedia is collaboratively edited...
Feb 19, 1998 · Kenichi Fukui, the first Japanese Nobel laureate in chemistry, died on 9 January this year. When Fukui was born, the electronic theory of chemical bonding was in its infancy.
