Mezamashi TV
is a Japanese breakfast television program broadcast every weekday on Fuji TV from 4:55 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Mezamashi is a form of the Japanese verb mezamasu (to wake up). Mezamashi TV has several spin-off shows such as  (replacing Meza News which ended in March 2014), which is aired before Mezamashi TV for viewers in the Kanto region starting at 4:00 am (stations in some areas will air Meza News at 5:00 am) which ended in March 2018 and , the Saturday supplement of Mezamashi TV which airs at a later time from 6:00 to 8:30 am, and Mezamashi 8 which is a replacement to Tokudane! from March 29, 2021. History 
In the first half of the 1990s, several news magazine shows of Fuji TV in the morning were discontinued after a short period because of low television ratings. The new show featured two presenters, Norikazu Otsuka and Akiko Yagi. Otsuka was a freelance presenter who had been a presenter at NHK. Mezamashi TV was first broadcast on April 1, 1994. In 1997, Natsuko Kojima was appointed as an additional main newscaster. In 2003, Aya Takashima was appointed as a new main newscaster. Segments

Kyo no Uranai CountDown! is a fortune-telling segment. This segment has continued since the beginning of Mezamashi TV. Kyo no Wanko 
 is a segment that shows interesting dogs in Japan. This segment has been continuing since 1994. This part is narrated by Kikue Nishiyama. Main presenters
 Norikazu Otsuka (April 1994 – November 2011)
 Toshihiro Ito (November 2011 – March 2012)
 Masaharu Miyake (April 2012 – present)
 Yūmi Nagashima
 Yōko Ozawa (September 2015 – September 2016)
 Shinichi Karube

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Japanese television news shows
1990s Japanese television series
2000s Japanese television series
2010s Japanese television series
2020s Japanese television series
1994 Japanese television series debuts
Fuji TV original programming