Takuya Terada

I'll be honest — Takuya Terada took an unusual route, debuting in Korea with the boy group Cross Gene in 2012 and becoming Japan's voice on JTBC's Non-Summit. Born in Moriya, Ibaraki in 1992, right on the edge of greater Tokyo but not quite in it — that in-between geography tends to produce people who aren't chasing the spotlight so much as inhabiting it on their own terms. He's an actor, singer, and model, which sounds like the standard multi-hyphenate package, but the difference is whether someone spreads themselves thin or actually shows up fully in each lane. He's in his mid-thirties now, that sweet spot where the raw instinct of youth and actual earned craft start clicking together. He has spent more than a decade working across two countries, and the quieter ones often have the longest runs — and I'm curious to see where this one lands.

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Takuya Terada is a Japanese actor, singer, and model born on March 18, 1992, in Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture. He works across multiple performance disciplines, maintaining an active presence in acting, music, and modeling. A former member of the Korean boy group Cross Gene, he is known in Korea as the former Japanese representative on JTBC's Non-Summit and is represented by Different Company. His broader profile is documented on the Japanese Wikipedia.

Name (English)

Takuya Terada

Name (Japanese)

寺田拓哉

Reading

てらだ たくや

Born

March 18, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Actor / Singer / Model / Television Actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/taku_march/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%BA%E7%94%B0%E6%8B%93%E5%93%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11457992

Tags

• From Ibaraki Prefecture
• Actor
• Singer
• Model

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.