Miyuki Kamishirasawa

Miyuki Takajima (高島　美幸) (née Kamishirasawa (上白沢)) was a Japanese programmer, writer, and voice actress who worked at Drillimation Studios from 1976 until 2008 when she retired. She is best known for voicing Taizo Hori in Mr. Driller and The Voice of Energy in Otter Magician Sammy.

Kamishirasawa was born in in 1934 and moved to,  at the age of five. She and her family fled to in 1943 to escape the, and she attended the  where she received a degree in English. She was one of the two people who tutored both Susumu and Hiroki Takajima in English.

Kamishirasawa started to show signs of emphysema in the late 2000s, leading to her choosing to retire in 2008. She lived for the next few years before she had a fall on December 24, 2015 at her home in,. Her health worsened as a result, and on January 5, 2017 a Girl Scout found her unconscious on her couch. She was airlifted to Baptist Medical Center East in, where she died on January 8. She is buried alongside her husband Hiroshi Takajima at in,.