Tokudane!
Tokudane! (とくダネ！) is a weekday morning news program airing on Fuji TV in Japan. It was first broadcast on April 1, 1999, and currently airs from 08:00 to 09:50 Mondays to Fridays. Air time of this program previously was from 8:00 to 9:55 until March 29, 2013.
| Tokudane! | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| Production | |
| Running time | 110 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original release | April 1, 1999 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Presenters
Main presenters
Anchor
- Tomoaki Ogura (April 1, 1999 – present)
Main assistants
- Shinsuke Kasai (April 1, 1999 – present)
- Yaeko Umezu (March 24, 2014 – March 31, 2019)
- Yuka Ebihara (October 2, 2017 – March 31, 2019)
Sub-assistants
- Shotaro Kinoshita (March 24, 2014 – present)
- Sayaka Morimoto (October 2, 2006 – present)
- Ayako Yamanaka (March 24, 2014 – present)
Show-biz reporter
- Chumei Maeda (April 1, 1999 – present)
Weather
- Takeshi Amatatsu (October 3, 2005 – present)
Past presenters
Main assistants
- Kyoko Sasaki (April 1, 1999 – March 27, 2009)
- Minako Nakano (March 30, 2009 – June 29, 2012)
- Rei Kikukawa (July 2, 2012 – September 29, 2017)
Sub-assistants
- Yutaka Hasegawa (April 2, 2001 – September 24, 2010)
- Daiki Tanaka (September 27, 2010 – March 21, 2014)
- Yumi Kasuga (April 1, 1999 – September 29, 2006)
- Reina Uchida (March 24, 2014 – September 18, 2015)
Regular commentators
- Dave Spector (Wednesday)
- Hiroko Mita (Wednesday)
- Seiko Niizuma (Thursday)
- Tetsuya Bessho (Friday)
- Manami Hashimoto (Friday)
Notable past commentators
Theme music
Opening and ending theme: "pal@pop" (Kenichi Takano, since March 2014)
Past
- April 1999 to March 2003: "Veronica" (Elvis Costello)
- April 2003 to September 2005: "Shout to the Top!" (opening) / "My Ever Changing Moods" (ending) (The Style Council)
- October 2005 to September 2007: "Don't Get Me Wrong" (The Pretenders)
- October 2007 to March 2009: "We Built This City" (Starship)
- April 2009 to March 2011: "Invisible Touch" (Genesis)
- April 2011 to March 2012: "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" (Belinda Carlisle)
- April 2012 to September 2012: "Tell Her About It" (Billy Joel)
- October 2012 to March 2014: "Tubthumping" (Chumbawamba)
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