is a Japanese screenwriter. Watanabe is a member of the Scenario Writers Association. She is married to freelance announcer

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Biography

She was born in Tokyo. In 2000, she worked for a company as an

office lady An office lady (), often abbreviated OL (, ), is a female office worker in Japan who performs generally pink-collar tasks such as secretarial or clerical work. Office ladies are usually full-time permanent staff, although the jobs they perform ...

, originally thought that she wanted to write something, because she liked her books originally, as a result of the

screenplay A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show (also known as a '' teleplay''), or video game by screenwriters (cf. ''stage play''). Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of w ...

version of the

television drama In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional te ...

''Fuzoroi no Ringo-tachi'' taken from a bookstore she am was willing for her path of screenwriting. In the era of underwriting worked on

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ting screenplay and stayed in the eyes of producers of television stations, she made her debut as a screenwriter at the 2002 TV drama ''Tentai Kansoku'' (

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). Since then, she has worked numerous comedies and romantic dramas around television dramas. In 2010 one of her works '' Nakanai to Kimeta Hi'' (

Fuji Television JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as or , is a Japanese television station that serves the Kantō region as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). The station is owned-and- ...

) drew attention by hiding the back and front of the human with the theme of female

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without hiding, attracting attention, and in 2014 ''First Class'' (Fuji Television) drew a female rating "Mounting" and called a topic. She was highly appraised as writing a plurality of characters as a single story and received a reputation that she "felt refined elegance" and received a screenplay of the

Asadora , colloquially known as , is a serialized, 15 minutes per episode, Japanese television drama program series broadcast in the mornings by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. The first such series aired in 1961 with the black-and-white , starring Ta ...

Beppinsan is a Japanese television drama series and the 95th asadora series, following ''Toto Neechan''. It was premiered on October 3, 2016, and ended on April 1, 2017. Plot Sumire (Kyoko Yoshine) was born as the second child from a wealthy family. She ...

'' in the latter half of 2016. In her private life, she was married on 18 August 2014, after acquiring a dinner hosted by President TakeOff in August 2012, after a dating period of about two years with a freelance announcer

belonging to the same office since around November the same year. On 13 January 2016 Asadora ''Beppinsan'' made a preliminary announcement at the production presentation, giving birth to a girl who becomes her first child at the end of the same month.

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NHK Matsuyama Broadcasting Bureau: Premium Drama ''Aruku, Aruku, Aruku: Shikoku Henro Michi'' Author: Chiho Watanabe
* (16–22 Nov 2009) {{DEFAULTSORT:Watanabe, Chiho Japanese women screenwriters Writers from Tokyo 1972 births Living people