Masahiro HAYAKAWA, Senior Producer, Natural History Programs,

NHK Enterprises, Inc.

Masahiro Hayakawa is a Senior Producer for Natural History Programs at NHK Enterprises, Inc. He was born in 1969 and lived in Panama until the age of 10, becoming fluent in Spanish. He graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo in 1993. As an undergraduate, he took part in field studies of humpback whales and other marine mammals around Japan’s Bonin islands, Colombia’s Gorgona island, and Mexico’s Baja California region. Hayakawa joined NHK in 1993 and was initially a producer in the Science Program Division in Tokyo. In 1996, he was transferred to NHK’s Aomori Bureau, where he gained experience of program-making in a wide range of genres including documentaries, news　programs, live broadcasts and sports. In 2000, he moved to the Science and Environment Program Division in Tokyo, where he has since worked mainly on natural-history programs. Hayakawa is currently assigned to NHK Enterprises, NHK’s biggest program-production affiliate. He was involved in the BBC co-production of Planet Earth.

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