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The Daily Japan Digest

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CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  aerospace industry; agricultural trade; automotive industry; banking; business administration and management; competitive strategy; computer industry; defense industry; electronics industry; finance, financial services; general economics; government bureaucracy; government-business relations; high tech industries; international business relations; international direct investment; international trade and finance; Japanese corporations in the US; joint ventures; macroeconomics; monetary theory; semiconductor industry; trade, investment and promotion; trade relations
• COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND MEDIA
  mass media
• HISTORY
  history of US-Japan relations
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  aerospace technology policy; antitrust and competition policy; defense conversion; defense cooperation; defense policy; defense procurement; defense research and development; defense spending; domestic politics; economic policy; economic regulation; economic relations; energy policy; foreign aid; foreign policy and international relations; industrial policy; international economic policy; international public affairs; land policy; military issues; monetary and fiscal policy; political change and domestic conflict; political institutions; science policy; technology policy; trade policy; US policy affecting Japan-US relations
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
  defense technology; electronics technology; energy technology; nuclear technology; technological change; technology management; technology transfer
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  technology and social change; US perceptions of Japan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Managing Editor, International, UPI, 1987-88; Correspondent, Newsweek, 1974-87; Correspondent, UPI, 1963-74; Reporter, Washington Post, 1962-63; Reporter, Wisconsin State Journal, 1958-61.

IN JAPAN: 1963-66, 1980-83 - employment; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

The Bad War (New American Library, 1987); The Daily Japan Digest (Serial, 1990-present).