Yurie Omi is a Japanese former announcer and news anchor for NHK.
42 Facts About Yurie Omi
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Yurie Omi was famous for being the co-host of NHK's morning talk show Asaichi as well as its geological television series Bura Tamori.
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Yurie Omi was involved in researching school-related topics and writing short columns on the newspaper until she was an 11th grader.
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In March 2012, Yurie Omi received the bachelor's degree from Waseda University in Tokyo.
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Yurie Omi's major was political science, and her researches included sport and city planning.
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Yurie Omi studied at Public Policy Research Seminar, or PPRS, the laboratory run by Koichiro Agata.
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Yurie Omi traveled alone around Beijing, China for a month as she said she loved China and Chinese culture.
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Yurie Omi was an assistant presenter starring some TV news programs of Asahi Newstar news channel.
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In 2014, Yurie Omi moved to NHK Fukuoka Broadcasting Station in Fukuoka, Japan.
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Yurie Omi appeared as an occasional newscaster on NHK News airing at noon within the Kyushu area as well as the nationwide morning news show NHK News Ohayo Nippon and the evening news show News Watch 9.
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On January 17,2015, Yurie Omi made a trip to Tokyo to be an occasional anchor for that day's NHK News Ohayo Nippon.
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In March 2016, Yurie Omi was appointed as the 4th assistant for NHK's geological program Bura Tamori hosted by Tamori.
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Yurie Omi moved to Tokyo since she was officially relocated to NHK Tokyo Announcement Room in April 2016.
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Yurie Omi served 65 episodes of Bura Tamori for two years from April 2016 to March 2018.
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Yurie Omi's girlish looks and goofy, empty-minded behavior attracted some of its viewers and contributed to this program's higher viewership.
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Yurie Omi appeared in this episode with her chin covered with a big bandage, which surprised viewers of this episode.
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On September 30,2017, Yurie Omi made a presentation in Nagoya to the viewers of Bura Tamori and her programs, talking what she was about, in-depth explanation of Bura Tamori's episodes in Nagoya, how these episodes were made, what the hardships in making these episodes were, and what the lessons she had learned from Tamori and the program production team were.
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Yurie Omi taught me that human's distress is a small thing compared to earth's long history.
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Yurie Omi served one year as a navigator for the "Machikado Johoshitsu " segment, where she introduced inventions that helped make people's life more convenient.
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On June 20,2016, Yurie Omi appeared at the studio of "Machikado Johoshitsu", having her clothes on back to front.
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Yurie Omi will try to wear clothes more carefully from now on.
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In NHK Special airing on January 1,2019, Yurie Omi hosted this program with Tamori in a similar way she did in Bura Tamori.
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Yurie Omi hosted the episodes aired on March 24 and August 10,2019.
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From November 24,2019 to February 23,2020, Yurie Omi hosted a series of "Origin of Food" with Tokio.
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Yurie Omi visited Sicily, Italy as a one-time navigator to film her six-day walk of the ancient Sicilian footpath from San Leone to Sutera for the last episode of documentary Ippon-no-Michi aired on NHK BS Premium on March 20,2018.
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Yurie Omi left Bura Tamori and NHK News Ohayo Nippon in March 2018.
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Yurie Omi talked in this interview how he had lived his tough life during World War II.
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Such a thing should never happen in a developed country," Yurie Omi talked back to him on behalf of NHK, saying, "You're saying NHK is got by the balls by the state.
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Yurie Omi was just a junior high school student when she appeared in the program airing on November 26,2002, as one of the examinees.
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In October 2019, Yurie Omi conducted an interview with Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Hirokazu Kore-eda, who starred and directed the film The Truth selected as the opening film at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.
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Yurie Omi said in the hearing sheet that she was not a morning person, that she did not like parties and crowded places, and that she was forgetful.
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In March 2020, Yurie Omi appeared on the website, having a mock job interview with her boss through a teleconferencing gear to give job-seeking college students some advice on how to succeed in online job interviews.
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In February 2021, Yurie Omi announced on Asaichi that she would be stepping down her post as co-host of Asaichi in March and leaving NHK, where she had worked for nine years.
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Yurie Omi told the viewers of Asaichi that it was because she had some new things she wanted to learn and said that she would try something other than being an announcer.
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Yurie Omi denied being a housewife or a freelance announcer.
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Yurie Omi told the viewers that she would be involved in city planning after her retirement from NHK.
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In December 2017, NHK Publishing published a textbook Kotobaryoku Up where what Yurie Omi had spoken on NHK Radio was written.
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Yurie Omi said on the radio that one of the most important attitudes she kept in mind in her job was that she tried not to be easily convinced.
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Yurie Omi said that it was because if she said so, the conversation would stop immediately since he or she would have no more words to say, and it was a significant loss of a chance to hear further interesting information from the expert.
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Yurie Omi says that her favorites are eating gummy candies and starch syrup, playing the electric organ, Tahitian dance, and collecting iron sand with a magnet.
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Yurie Omi said that Mitsuo Momota, Yo-Hey, and Great Muta were her most impressive wrestlers.
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Daily Shincho reported on May 20,2020, that Yurie Omi had registered her marriage on May 1,2019, with a producer of NHK who was 15 years her senior.