Isshin Chiba was born in Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan. He graduated from Miyagi Prefecture Kesennuma High School. After graduating from high school, he had the idea to become a stage actor. However, because he had no experience in such extracurricular activities in particular, he attended Katsuma Voice Actor's Academy in
Tokyo. He started his career as a voice actor at age 22 in 1990. In 1997, he landed the role for which he is best known, the role of
Jin Kazama from the
Tekken fighting game series. Starting from
Tekken 3, he voiced Jin in all other
Tekken games, including crossovers
Namco × Capcom,
Street Fighter X Tekken,
Project X Zone,
Project X Zone 2,
The King of Fighters All Star and adaptations
Tekken: Blood Vengeance,
Tekken: Bloodline and the Japanese dub of the live-action
Tekken film. This makes Isshin Chiba the fifth single actor playing a videogame character the longest, behind
Ed Boon, who voices
Scorpion from
Mortal Kombat,
Takenobu Mitsuyoshi who voices
Kage Maru from
Virtua Fighter,
Shin-ichiro Miki who voices
Akira Yuki from
Virtua Fighter, and
Joseph D. Kucan, who voices
Kane from
Command & Conquer. ==Filmography==