Janice Kawaye, who is also professionally known by the alias Janice Roman Roku, is an American voice actress with a career spanning over four decades. Born on April 4, 1970, in Los Angeles, California, she is of Japanese descent and is fluent in Japanese, a skill that has been integral to her extensive work in English dubs of anime. She began her career in the 1980s, with early roles including the lead character Dorothy Gale in the 1987 film Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz, credited under her birth name, Hiromi Kawaye.

Kawaye is widely recognized for her work in both animation and anime. Her filmography is vast, but she is particularly known for leading roles in Western animation, such as the voice of the titular robot Jenny Wakeman in My Life as a Teenage Robot, Ami Onuki in Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, and Gi in Captain Planet and the Planeteers. In the realm of anime, she has secured several long-running and significant parts. She is most notably the voice of Yuzu Kurosaki across the long-running series Bleach and its subsequent films. Other prominent anime roles include Shizuku in Hunter × Hunter (2011 series), Mumei in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, and Cocoa Yazawa in Love Live! School Idol Project.

Kawaye has a long-standing and particularly notable association with the English dubs of the Detective Conan franchise produced by Bang Zoom! Entertainment. She voices the character Ayumi Yoshida, a member of the Junior Detective League, in numerous films and specials. As requested, specific credits include Ayumi Yoshida in Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire and Detective Conan - Episode One: The Great Detective Turned Small. Her work in this franchise is often credited under her alias, Janice Roman Roku. Her other roles within the series include Azusa Enomoto in the spin-off Case Closed: Zero's Tea Time. This frequent collaboration with Bang Zoom! Entertainment for their dubs of popular anime constitutes a significant recurring professional relationship.

Beyond her voice work in series and films, Kawaye has had a prolific career in video game voice acting. She is well-known for voicing the character Ayane in the Ninja Gaiden and related series. Another critically acclaimed performance is her role as Lysithea von Ordelia in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and its subsequent appearances in Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes and Fire Emblem Heroes, often credited as Janice Roman Roku in the latter. Her game credits also include Cosette Coalhearth in Valkyria Chronicles II, Xiao Pai in Rune Factory 4, and Peko Pekoyama in the Danganronpa series. Her extensive and diverse body of work across animation, anime dubbing, and video games has established her as a prominent and enduring figure in the voice acting industry.