About

Mark Weitzman is a voice over talent and writer. He is a former radio on-air personality and radio news writer and broadcaster. He’s lived in Japan since 1993.

Mark has worked at radio stations all over the Rocky Mountain West (and also Omaha and Austin.) His radio show from Denver in the early 1990s was broadcast by satellite and carried by over 60 radio stations in the US.

During his 15-year radio career, Mark also wrote dozens of radio comedy skits and hundreds of radio commercials. He won a First Place Addy Award for radio commercial writing and production in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1986.

When not on-the-air in Denver, Mark was a volunteer at the University of Colorado in Boulder, helping students from abroad practice English. He soon had many Japanese friends and became knowledgeable about Japan.

Worldwide voice over by Mark Weitzman

In 1993 a radio program production company in Tokyo invited Mark to host a morning radio show in Sapporo, Japan (with a Japanese bilingual co-host.) Mark moved to Tokyo. But then the Sapporo radio station canceled the program idea, so Mark began performing voiceovers by day and teaching English by night at Berlitz in Tokyo. In 2006 he became a full-time freelance voice over artist and performs voice over at studios in Tokyo or from his home studio, for projects to be broadcast or distributed locally, regionally or worldwide.

Japan cartoon by Mark WeitzmanMark is also a cartoonist and in the 1980s and early 1990s his cartoons were syndicated by Tribune Media Services’ College Press Service to hundreds of colleges and university newspapers in the US. In Japan, Mark has drawn Japan-themed cartoons and one of his cartoons was published in Pado, a community newspaper in Tokyo.

Mark’s LetsJapan blog was established in 2008. He has written hundreds of articles about Japan and has been published at Digital Journal and Digital World Tokyo. Mark has been a ghostwriter for other websites about Japan.

Japanese folks often exclaim that Mark can handle chopsticks well. Using precision chopstick manipulation, Mark enjoys sushi at his local sushi restaurant, and una-don – grilled eel on rice – which is believed to increase one’s stamina.

Mark resides in the west side of Tokyo, and he is active in his neighborhood: crows and blaring loudspeakers on junk collector trucks are some of his protest targets.


Learn about Mark Weitzman’s Japanese voice over services at www.japanesevoiceover.jp. Read hundreds of articles written by Mark on LetsJapan, his blog about Japan.

Mark’s Slideshow Timeline

  1970's

  1980's

  1990's