Who is Mamiko Okamura?

Mamiko Okamura(岡村真美子) is a Japanese weather forecaster. She is also an pianist. She graduated from Kunitachi College of Music.

She has appeared on "NHK News 7" since 2011. She is popular for cute looks.

Shukan Bunshun, one of leading weekly magazines in Japan, reported on December 25th that Okamura had have adulterous affairs with two men.

One is an officer at Japan Meteorological Agency. His name is anonymous in the article of Shukan Bunshun.

The other is Daisuke Sato(佐藤大介). He is also a weather forecaster. He has appeared on "Hiru-obi(ひるおび)", the daytime news show of TBS. He and Okamura belongs to the same weather information company, Weather Map Co., Ltd. According to Shukan Bunshun, they have had sex in the office of the company.

Both Okamura and Sato was replaced on their own programs on December 25th.

Here is the video of Mamiko Okamura weather forecasting.


Why did Okamura have illicit affairs?

One reason is that she has a kind of sexual addiction. According to Cyzo, one of leading monthly magazines in Japan, she said to her friend, "I'll go mad if I can't have sex at least once a month."

Another reason is the corporate culture of NHK. Compared to other companies, illicit affairs happen in NHK more frequently. For example, according to Shukan Bunshun, Sae Nakarai(半井小絵), who had appeared on "NHK News 7" as Okamura's predecessor, had an illicit affair with Yoshinori Tateyama(建山義紀), an baseball player.

Who is Serika Kiyomizu?

Serika Kiyomizu (清水芹夏) is a Japanese actress and model.

She appeared in "King's Brunch" as an reporter from April 2nd, 2011 to March 31th, 2012. "King's Brunch" is the popular infotainment program of TBS.

On November 13th, 2014, she was arrested for using cocaine by a joint investigation team of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Akita Prefectural Police.

This is a news video about the arrest of Serika Kiyomizu.



Serika Kiyomizu's blog
http://ameblo.jp/selica-kiyomizu/ (Inaccessible)

Serika Kiyomizu on twitter
https://twitter.com/selica1225

Who is Masamitsu Morita?

Masamitsu Morita(森田正光) is a Japanese weather forecaster. He also is the president of Weather Map Co., Ltd.(ウェザーマップ), a private weather information company in Japan.

He is well known for Japanese people, because he has been the weathercaster for the evening news programs of TBS(東京放送) for more than 30 years.

Here are videos of Masamitsu Morita delivering lectures.




[Link]
Masamitsu Morita on twitter
https://twitter.com/wm_morita

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Who is Takashi Mikuriya?

Takashi Mikuriya(御厨貴) is one of the leading political scientists in Japan. He specializes in Japan's Political History, Public Policy, Oral History, Architecture and Politics, Media and Politics.

He is a professor of the Open University of Japan(OUJ). Before he took up a professorship at OUJ in 2012, he had been a professor of the University of Tokyo("Todai"), one of the leading universities in Japan. Some people were surprised when he left "Todai" at the age of 60, because the compulsory retirement age of "Todai" is 65. According to the article of the Asahi Shimbun Degital(http://www.asahi.com/national/intro/TKY201205010434.html), as the reason of leaving "Todai", Mikuriya said "Futility and flexibility are needed for study and research with dreams. "Todai" used to think much of futility and flexibility in the past. However, it is running the rat race now and lost futility and flexibility completely."

He is known to Japanese public as the host of "Jiji-Houdan"(Current Affair Talks), a Sunday morning political talk show on the TBS channel.

Here is a Video Report (Press Briefing): "Towards Reconstruction," Report by the Reconstruction Design Council (June 25, 2011). Takashi Mikuriya is one of the speakers.

[Link]
Takashi Mikuriya's Profile on the website of International Research Center for Japanese Studies
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/faculty/staff2/mikuriya_e.html</ br>