Senior Journalist

The Asahi Shimbun

5-3-2 Tsukiji
Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-11

TEL: (03) 3545-0131

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND MEDIA
  mass media; media and politics
• HISTORY
  history of US-Japan relations; political and diplomatic history
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  defense policy; domestic politics; Japanese policy affecting Japan-US relations; security relations; strategic studies; US, Japan and the UN; US policy affecting Japan-US relations
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  Japanese perceptions of the US; Japanese perceptions of the world

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Correspondent (Vietnam, Washington), Bangkok Bureau Chief, Deputy Foreign Editor, American Bureau Chief, Foreign Editor, Deputy Managing Editor, Asahi Newspaper, 1964-95.

IN US: 1975-79, 1985-89 - employment.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Japan and America: Changing Relationship (co-author) (Asahi Shimbun, 1987); A New Theory of Diplomacy: The United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan's National Interest (Tsukiji Shokan, 1983); Lockheed Sales Mission to Japan (1976); The Pacific Rivals: Japan and America (co-author) (Asahi Shimbun, 1972).