Yoko Akino

Yoko Akino was born Yoko Tashiro in Osaka in 1957, and has worked as an actress in Japan for more than five decades. In an industry that chews through young performers with startling efficiency, sheer longevity is its own achievement. Most people who break through early are gone within a few years — not because they lacked talent, but because staying visible turns out to be a completely different skill from arriving. Akino kept working, and became one of those faces that Japanese viewers simply know: not through any single defining role so much as through steady, decades-long presence on television. She has also never lost the distinctly Osaka directness in how she speaks, which in a media culture that rewards polished evasion is genuinely useful. Watching someone remain in the frame for fifty years is less a story about talent than about stamina and nerve, and I have a lot of respect for that.

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Name (English)

Yoko Akino

Name (Japanese)

秋野暢子

Reading

あきの ようこ

Born

January 18, 1957 (age 69)

Origin

Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

168 cm

Occupation

actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rooster

Blood type

A

Active years

1974 -

Works summary

Appearances

177 (1974–2026)

By year (titles with a known year)

1974: 1, 1975: 1, 1976: 5, 1977: 7, 1978: 8, 1979: 4, 1980: 4, 1981: 4, 1982: 6, 1983: 4, 1984: 3, 1985: 3, 1986: 5, 1987: 1, 1988: 5, 1989: 4, 1990: 4, 1991: 3, 1992: 2, 1993: 2, 1994: 1, 1995: 2, 1996: 3, 1998: 2, 1999: 1, 2000: 1, 2001: 1, 2002: 3, 2004: 1, 2005: 1, 2006: 4, 2007: 4, 2008: 2, 2009: 3, 2010: 2, 2011: 3, 2012: 1, 2013: 2, 2014: 4, 2015: 2, 2016: 4, 2017: 1, 2018: 1, 2019: 2, 2022: 1, 2024: 1, 2026: 1, year unknown: 47

Debut work

おおさか・三月・三年

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/yokoakino118/
• Xhttps://x.com/ppppp5yoko
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko%20Akino
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%8B%E9%87%8E%E6%9A%A2%E5%AD%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3543618

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.