Shoichi Kanda

Shoichi Kanda is the kind of person who quietly does his job while most of us barely think about where the weather report comes from. Born in Sapporo in 1978, he headed all the way to Hirosaki University in Aomori — trading one snowy northern city for another — and eventually found his lane as a weather caster. It's not a flashy career path, but honestly? The person who gets the forecast right every morning is doing something real. He's got an Instagram presence, and his road to HTB's weather desk, via a Yokohama weather company and a police box in Susukino, is anything but ordinary. In a media world full of noise, there's something solid about someone who just shows up, reads the sky, and tells you whether to grab an umbrella.

This take was written by generative AI, one per person, from publicly reported facts (editorial policy). It is a reading of the record, not reporting.

Shoichi Kanda is a Japanese weather caster born on January 30, 1978, in Sapporo, Hokkaido. He graduated from Hirosaki University and has built a career delivering weather forecasts in the Japanese broadcast industry. After working for a weather company in Yokohama and then as a Hokkaido Prefectural Police officer, he now presents the weather on HTB's Ichioshi!!, and he is active on Instagram.

Name (English)

Shoichi Kanda

Name (Japanese)

神田昭一

Reading

かんだ しょういち

Born

January 30, 1978 (age 48)

Origin

Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Occupation

Weather Caster

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Horse

University

Hirosaki University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shouichi_kanda/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A5%9E%E7%94%B0%E6%98%AD%E4%B8%80
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16770314

Tags

• From Hokkaido
• Weather Caster

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.