Rikako Aikawa is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Atomic Monkey. She was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She was originally a child actor. She is also known as a specialist of tongue-twister in the Japanese language. Her real name after she married Mitsuo Iwata, a Japanese voice actor, is Nahomi Iwata. She also appears in the Japanese and English-language versions of the Pok�mon anime, voicing Ash's Caterpie, Metapod and Butterfree and his Krabby. She had a main role in the Orange League series where she voiced Ash's Lapras in both versions. She also appeared in the second Pok�mon movie as the legendary Fire Pok�mon, Moltres. She had a recurring role in the Johto series as Charla, Liza's Charizard, a Pok�mon who lives at the Charicific Valley and who eventually developed a romantic relationship with Ash's Charizard. She also played Madame Muchmoney's Granbull. 

October 7th, 1967 in Kanagawa Prefecture (Age 56)