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Saya Ichikawa

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Saya Ichikawa
市川 紗椰
Born
Jennifer Saya Ichikawa Shook (シュック 市川 紗耶 ジェニファ, Shukku Ichikawa Saya Jenifa)

(1987-02-14) February 14, 1987 (age 37)
EducationWaseda University
Occupations
  • Model
  • newscaster
AgentSuper Continental
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]

Saya Ichikawa (市川 紗椰, Ichikawa Saya, born 14 February 1987)[1] is a Japanese-American model, tarento, and newscaster. Her original stage name was Saya until 2011. Her father is an American with Cherokee heritage[2] and her mother is Japanese.[3][4]

Ichikawa is represented by the agency Super Continental.

Biography

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Ichikawa was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, and she grew up in Detroit between the ages of four and thirteen. She was accepted to Columbia University, University of Chicago, and New York University. Ichikawa planned on attending Columbia University,[4] but she delayed college for one year in order to focus on her modelling career. Ichikawa was scheduled to return to the United States after the one year, but she enjoyed her career and decided to stay in Japan. She later graduated from Waseda University in 2010.

Ichikawa was accepted as an exclusive model for the magazines Vivi and 25ans at the age of sixteen,[5] and she is currently active in a number of fashion magazines. She had modeled in the magazines Sumo Fan, sweet, More, Baila, and Maquia.

In the 4 April 2016 Ichikawa became an MC in the Fuji Television informational news programme Your Time.[6]

Bibliography

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Magazines

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Year Title Notes
2003 Vivi
2008 25ans Exclusive model
sweet Regular
More Regular
Baila Regular
2011 Maquia "Saya Ichikawa no Hon areba Koso, Bi Jinsei!"
2014 Tabi to Tetsudō "Saya Ichikawa: Ninki Tokkyū de yukou!"
Sumo Fan On the cover of volumes 1 through 4
Spur
King "Saya no School of Rock"
Miss
Classy
An an
VoCE
Nylon
Tokyo Girls Collection
2017 Sumo Fan On the cover of volume 5

Advertisements

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Year Title Notes
2008 Wacoal Lalan Image character
2016 Wacoal Wing Miss Slender and Tokihanatsu Bra
Atre Image character
Johnson & Johnson Johnson's body care Image character
Watabe Wedding Image character
Amu plaza kagoshima Image character
United Arrows Green Label Image character
Tobu Railway Ajute Image character
Anfamie Image character
Isetan Girl Image character

Jacket photos

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Year Title Notes Ref.
2015 Spicy Chocolate "Miscasting feat. Takuya Ohashi (Sukima Switch) & Reitaro Kimyo" Limited single [7]

Publications

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Music

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Year Title
2015 "Yoru ga Aketara"

Charms

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Year Title
2007 Torez: Kōun o Yobikomu Lucky Charm 13 no Mahō yo, Todoke!

Photobooks

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Year Title
2004 Seishun Tokyo School Girl
2008 Gekkan Saya
Gekkan 100 Anniversary
2015 Yoru ga Aketara

Books

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Year Title
2007 Model Life
2012 Saya Ichikawa no Dokudashi "Bichō" Smoothie
2013 Cookie Fortune Love 2013 Spring / Summer Collection

Filmography

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Films

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Year Title Role
2015 Pieta in the Toilet Satsuki Ozaki

TV series

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News programmes

Year Title Network Notes
2015 Houdou Kyoku 24 NotTV, Fuji TV on Demand Main caster from Wednesdays and Thursdays
2016 Your Time Fuji TV Main caster in Weekdays
Ashita no Compass Fuji TV Weekday late appearances

Informal programmes

Year Title Network Notes
2007 Tokyo Kawaii TV NHK-G Regular appearances
2014 Hiru Bura NHK-G Reporter

Music programmes

Year Title Network Notes
2013 Mirai Teiban Kyoku TVK, BS12 TV, TV Saitama, Tochigi TV, GTV Personality

Cultural programmes

Year Title Network Notes
2007 Harisenbon Eikaiwa Juku Fuji TV
2010 Mezase! Kaisha no Hoshi NHK-E Guest
2011 3-kagetsu Topic Eikaiwa: Marugoto Taikan! Hawaiian Rojas NHK-E
2012 Kokoro to Karada Mitsuru Toki ofu NHK BS Premium
2014 Kaigyō 100-nen! Anata no Shiranai Tokyo Eki: Otona no Shakai Kengaku NHK BS Premium
Nippon Sengo Subculture-shi NHK BS Premium
2015 The Premium: Odoroki! Nippon no Sokojikara NHK BS Premium
The Profiler NHK BS Premium
Sekai no Meisaku BS Asahi

Variety programmes

Year Title Network Notes
2014 Tamori Club TV Asahi Quasi-regular appearances
Ariyoshi-kun no Shōjiki sanpo Fuji TV Regular guest appearances
2015 Kumiko Okae ga Iku! Rekishi to Zekkei no Kaga Hyakumangoku Onna Futaritabi-hen BS-TBS
Tokyo Design TV BS NTV 5th MC
Ī Otona ga Hamaru Sekai BeeTV MC
Peace Matayoshi no fumi Komi En NTV MC
Suppin House TBS MC
2016 Manatsu no Mystery Tokuban: Nazotoki wa Sk-Per! no Naka de BS Sk Per MC

Radio

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Year Title Network Notes
2012 Hello World J-Wave
2013 I A.M. J-Wave "Close To You"
2015 The Top 5 TBS Radio Season 5; Thursday appearances

Music videos

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Year Title Ref.
2009 Base Ball Bear "Breeeeze Girl" [8]

Others

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Charity activities

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Year Title
2009 JOICFP no Project Chiku Zambia o Shisatsu
2012 Kate Spade no Tōhoku Shien Project "Support Japan" no Project Chiku

Lectures

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Year Title
2013 Women's Magazine in Aogaku 2013: Model Saya Ichikawa no Bichō Smoothie de Hajimeru "Chō Katsu" Lesson

References

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  1. ^ a b "市川 紗椰". Super Continental (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 Oct 2016.
  2. ^ Ichikawa, Saya (5 Jul 2014). "近江といえば名人戦" (in Japanese). Saya Ichikawa Official Web site. Retrieved 25 Oct 2016.
  3. ^ "新世代オタク女子・市川紗椰 "美女なのにガチ"というギャップで引っ張りだこ". Oricon Style (in Japanese). Oricon. 18 Mar 2015. Retrieved 25 Oct 2016.
  4. ^ a b "2015年11月21日放送 23:30 - 0:00 TBS 新チューボーですよ!". TV data Zoo (in Japanese). Wire Action. 21 Nov 2015. Retrieved 25 Oct 2016.
  5. ^ Takakura, Fuminori. "「専門化」するモデル界で個性的に輝く市川紗椰". Talent Power Ranking (in Japanese). Architect. Archived from the original on 2016-05-13. Retrieved 25 Oct 2016.
  6. ^ "硬派一変!ショーンK&市川紗椰、フジ系夜ニュースの顔に大抜擢". Sanspo.com (in Japanese). Sankei Digital. 25 Feb 2016. Retrieved 25 Oct 2016.
  7. ^ "美人過ぎる鉄道オタク、市川紗椰ジャケット写真起用". Nikkan Sports (in Japanese). 13 Nov 2015. Retrieved 25 Oct 2016.
  8. ^ "Base Ball Bear - BREEEEZE GIRL". Base Ball Bear Vevo (in Japanese). 8 Jul 2012. Retrieved 25 Oct 2016.
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