Professor

Kyoritsu Women's University

c/o Press Center Bldg. S-850
2-2-1 Uchisaiwai-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100

TEL: (03) 3506-8666

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  foreign policy and international relations; political change and domestic conflict; political culture; US-Pacific Rim negotiations; US policy affecting Japan-US relations
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  Japanese perceptions of the US

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Correspondent (Washington), Bureau Chief (New York, Washington), Chair, Editorial Board, Asahi Newspaper, 1953-91.

IN US: 1991 - study; 1961-66, 1971-77 - employment.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

International Compass (Asahi Shimbun, 1991); To Boost the Image of Japan (Asahi Shimbun 1989); The Era of International Dialogue (Asahi Shimbun, 1985); To Revitalize Liberalism (Asahi Shimbun, 1982).