Ikuya Sawaki is a veteran Japanese voice actor born on August 25, 1951, in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. His real name is Yoshinobu Mikami, and he has been active in the voice acting industry since 1976. He is affiliated with the talent management firm Arts Vision.

Sawaki has built an extensive career across many decades, lending his voice to a vast array of characters in anime, original video animations, video games, and tokusatsu productions. He is also prolific in the field of dubbing, providing the Japanese voices for numerous foreign films and television series.

One of his most prominent and recognizable roles in recent years is Admiral Fujitora (Issho) in the long-running anime series One Piece. He has voiced this character consistently, appearing in the main television series as well as the feature films One Piece Stampede and One Piece Film Red. Another significant role is Mao, a mysterious and cynical cat-like Contractor, in the anime series Darker than Black and its sequel Darker Than Black: Ryūsei no Gemini.

His career is also notably linked with the Transformers franchise. He voiced several major characters across different series, including Fortress Maximus in Transformers: The Headmasters, Grand Maximus in Transformers: Super-God Masterforce, and Ratchet in Transformers: Armada.

Beyond these, Sawaki has played a wide variety of supporting and guest roles. A selection of these include Boscogne in Berserk, Ladderum Kune in Turn A Gundam, the Narrator and Herring in the One Piece OVA Defeat The Pirate Ganzak!, Hanzo of the Salamander in Naruto: Shippuden, the Grandfather Nase in Beyond the Boundary, Dr. Kouzaburou Nanbu in the Gatchaman OVA, and ZX-Tole in The Guyver: Bio-Booster Armor. His filmography also includes roles in series such as Samurai Pizza Cats, The Demonic Beast Front, Reporter Blues, and Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079. In video games, he has voiced characters like Dietrich Kellerman in Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War and the Master Control Program in Kingdom Hearts II.

Sawaki has been a frequent presence in the Super Sentai tokusatsu franchise. He has provided the voice for the Tensouder device and the character Master Head in Tensou Sentai Goseiger and its subsequent crossovers, and has also voiced characters in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger.

In dubbing, he is the Japanese voice of the Scotsman in Samurai Jack and has voiced characters in numerous Hollywood films, including Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) in The Irishman, Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang) in Don't Breathe, and roles in major productions like The Matrix Reloaded, Predator 2, and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Even with a career spanning nearly five decades, Ikuya Sawaki continues to be active, taking on roles in new productions such as the 2023 anime A Playthrough of a Certain Dude's VRMMO Life.