Tokudane!

Tokudane!
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
Production
Running time	110 minutes
Original release
Network	Fuji TV
Release	April 1, 1999 (1999-04-01) – present

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.

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

• Kaori Manabe
• Kazuhide Uekusa

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)

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)