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Dave Spector 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1954 )〕 is an American gaijin tarento (foreign TV personality) and TV producer who lives and works in Japan. Originally from Chicago, USA, he moved to Japan in 1983 after visiting as a producer with the American television program ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!''. He appears regularly as a commentator on several different Japanese television programs, including a Wednesday spot on Fuji TV's daily morning news program ''Tokudane!'',〔 and TBS's weekly ''Sunday Japon''.〔 ==Career== As a child, Dave Spector appeared in American TV commercials, including one for cereal manufacturer Kellogg Company. He says that he first became interested in things Japanese in the fifth grade at elementary school when he made friends with an immigrant classmate from Japan, Michael Sugano. He started learning Japanese by reading serialized Japanese ''manga'' such as ''Obake no Q-tarō'' and ''Ashita no Joe''.〔 Spector studied at Sophia University in Tokyo, before returning to America a year later.〔 After returning to Chicago, he enrolled at the Institute of Broadcast Arts.〔 He moved to Japan in 1983 to research exotic film clips from Japanese television to be used on the American TV show ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!''.〔 While this work continued until ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' ended in 1986,〔 Spector became well known in Japan after becoming a regular guest on Fuji TV's lunchtime TV variety show ''Waratte Iitomo!'' in 1984,〔 alongside other foreign personalities such as Canadian Kent Derricott, American Kent Gilbert, and Guinean . He established the Tokyo-based company Spector Communications in 1988.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dave Spector」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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