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| name                = Akira Kamiya
| image               = Cast Akira Kamiya.jpg
| gender              = Male
| date-of-birth       = September 18, 1946
| place-of-birth      = Minami, Yokohama
| location            =
| voice-of            = [[Kogoro Mouri]] (Ep. 1~548)
| nicknames           = Akki-san
| footnotes           =
}}
{{nihongo|'''Akira Kamiya'''|神谷 明|Kamiya Akira}}, born September 18, 1946, is a [[Wikipedia: Seiyu|seiyu]] from Minami, Yokohama. He runs his own talent agency, '''Saeba Shoji''', named after his ''City Hunter'' character Ryo Saeba.

In ''[[Detective Conan]]'' he was the voice of [[Kogoro Mouri]] from the show's beginning in 1996, until 2009. A prominent voice actor in the 70s and 80s, he rarely worked on anything other than ''Detective Conan'' during this period.

== Other roles in Gosho Aoyama's prior series ==
* ''[[The Santa Claus of Summer]]'': Gray
* ''[[Detective George's Mini-Mini Big Strategy]]'': George Kirishima

== Other notable roles ==
=== Anime ===
* ''[[Wikipedia: Babel II|Babel II]]'' as Babel II
* ''[[Wikipedia: Space Battleship Yamato|Space Battleship Yamato]]'' as Saburo & Shiro Kato
* ''[[Wikipedia: Getter Robo|Getter Robo]]'' as Ryo Nagare
* ''[[Wikipedia: Brave Raideen|Brave Raideen]]'' as Akira Hibiki
* ''[[Wikipedia: Gaiking|Gaiking]]'' as Sanshiro Tsuwabuki
* ''[[Wikipedia: Dokaben|Dokaben]]'' as Satoru Satonaka
* ''[[Wikipedia: Mechander Robo|Mechander Robo]]'' as Jimmy Orion
* ''[[Wikipedia: Danguard Ace|Danguard Ace]]'' as Takuma Ichimonji
* ''[[Wikipedia: Captain Harlock|Space Pirate Captain Herlock]]'' as Tadashi Daiba
* ''[[Wikipedia: Tosho Daimos|Tosho Daimos]]'' as Kazuya Ryuzaki
* ''[[Wikipedia: Urusei Yatsura|Urusei Yatsura]]'' as Shutaro Mendo
* ''[[Wikipedia: Beast King GoLion|Go-Lion (Voltron)]]'' as Sinkline (Lotor)
* ''[[Wikipedia: The Super Dimension Fortress Macross|Super Dimensional Fortress Macross]]'' as Roy Fokker
* ''[[Wikipedia: Kinnikuman|Kinnikuman]]'' as Kinniku Suguru/Kinnikuman
* ''[[Wikipedia: Nine (manga)|Nine]]'' as Kentaro Yamanaka
* ''[[Wikipedia: Fist of the North Star|Fist of the North Star]]'' as Kenshiro
* ''[[Wikipedia: Maison Ikkoku|Maison Ikkoku]]'' as Shun Mitaka
* ''[[Wikipedia: City Hunter|City Hunter]]/[[Wikipedia: Angel Heart (manga)|Angel Heart]]'' as Ryo Saeba
* ''[[Wikipedia: Dragon Ball Z|Dragon Ball Z: Movie 1]]'' as Garlic Jr.
* ''[[Wikipedia: Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl|Yawara!]]'' as Shinnosuke Kazamatsuri
* ''[[Wikipedia: Sailor Moon|Sailor Moon S]]'' as Professor Tomoe
* ''[[Wikipedia: All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku|All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl]]'' as Kyusaku Natsume
* ''[[Wikipedia: Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki|Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki]]'' as Satou Father & Granny (Kurobe's owner)

=== Tokusatsu ===
* ''[[Wikipedia: Chōriki Sentai Ohranger|Chōriki Sentai Ohranger]]'' as Gunmajin
* ''[[Wikipedia: Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle|Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle]]'' as Black Cross King

=== Audio drama ===
* ''[[Wikipedia: Dragon Quest V|Dragon Quest V]]'' CD Theater as Papas

== Retirement from Detective Conan ==
It was announced on September 18th, 2009, on Kamiya's blog that due to problems with his contract, he will no longer provide the voice of Kogoro Mouri. He gave a sincere apology to the directors, writers, [[Gosho Aoyama]], his co-stars (he specifically mentioned [[Minami Takayama]], [[Wakana Yamazaki]], and [[Kenichi Ogata]]), [[TV_Networks#Yomiuri_Telecasting_Corporation|Yomiuri Television]], [[Shogakukan]], and his fans for the sudden turn of events.<ref>http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-09-17/detective-conan-akira-kamiya-to-leave-kogoro-mouri-role</ref> Though in his blog he implied he "lost his trust" in the production company, the next day he erased the contents of his blog.<ref>http://www.j-cast.com/2009/09/18050051.html (Japanese)</ref> Starting with episode 553, [[Rikiya Koyama]] took over the role of Kogoro Mouri.<ref>http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-10-27/rikiya-koyama-to-voice-detective-conan-kogoro-mouri</ref>

== Trivia ==
* Kamiya and [[Hideyuki Tanaka]] (voice of [[Yusaku Kudo]]) have appeared in many anime together as characters who are connected in some way, such as ''Dokaben'' (Yamada and Satoru), ''Kinnikuman'' (Kinnikuman and Terryman), ''Fist of the North Star 2'' (Kenshiro and Falco), and ''City Hunter'' (Ryo Saeba and Makimura). They have also both dubbed over [[wikipedia:Pierce Brosnan|Pierce Brosnan]] as [[James Bond]].
* Kamiya and [[Toshio Furukawa]] (voice of [[Misao Yamamura]]) have appeared as rivals in other animes on three notable occasions: ''Urusei Yatsura'' (Mendo and Ataru), ''Fist of the North Star'' (Kenshiro and Shin), and ''Dragon Ball Z'' (Garlic Jr. and Piccolo). They have also both played the character Kinnikuman (Furukawa voiced him in the sequel ''[[Wikipedia: Ultimate Muscle|Kinnikuman Nisei]]'') and Furukawa voiced the character Shigeru Sakamoto in ''Space Battleship Yamato'', the character who replaced Kamiya's Saburo Kato.

== References ==
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# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Kamiya Wikipedia]
# [https://myanimelist.net/people/416/Akira_Kamiya MyAnimeList]
# [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0436776/ IMDB]
# [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1583 Anime News Network]

== See also ==
* [[Staff]]

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