I'm in the process of studying Japanese, have a bad accent and so I found a Japanese accent teacher. He helps foreigners get rid of their gaijin accent. I had a dozen one-on-one lessons with him and I it helped improve my pronunciation. Unfortunately I'm looking for someone a bit closer to central Tokyo. Does anyone know of a teacher or school that focuses on this? I've done a search of the web but can't seem to find anything.

If you are curious, here's the person I saw previously.

http://www.nihongo-hatsuon.jp/access/index.html

Thanks in advance for any help...

I can't help you there unfortunately... but one thing that really helped my pronunciation was to do shadowing with Anki and subs2srs

Thanks!

Absolutely agree with shadowing. I've found that it often helps me implicity pronounce words with the pitch in the right place, either on its own or in a sentence, which changes the intonation a lot. I'm quite fervent on keeping my pronunciation up to par with my reading comprehension, because I don't want to understand a word/passage without being able to read it aloud.

It's still very difficult but without all of the shadowing I do, my farmiliarity with pitch in Japanese, and my ability to guess as to what sounds most correct would be non-existent

There are a bunch of websites for finding tutors in Japan, and usually you write what you want to focus on and tutors who think they might be a good fit will e-mail you. Then you can do a trial lesson to see if you think he/she'll be a good tutor. I would just write what you want on one of these sites and maybe you'll find someone good. The one I found my former tutor on was らぼっち (http://www.labochi.com/), but there were a couple others if I remember correctly.

I took lessons with the first and only tutor I met for about four years (until she got pregnant, haha), and she's one of the greatest people I've ever met. I went to her wedding, still go to her BBQs and house parties, etc. Actually, I might have used her for life advice more than Japanese... but also Japanese.

Thanks for the link to labochi.com, will check it out!