Sasakawa USA 2017 Journalism Fellow: The story behind ‘Would you Play Ball at Fukushima?’
January 17, 2018Author: Seth Berkman
Categories: Sasakawa USA Blog
2017 Sasakawa USA Journalism Fellow Seth Berkman took a reporting trip to Japan in late 2017. Here, he shares the back story to his fellowship and the reporting process behind his second article “Would you Play Ball in Fukushima?” published in the New York Times on December 29.
Tags: 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami, 2020 Olympics, Fukushima, Japan, journalism fellowship
Tokyo Elects First Woman Governor by Landslide Over Abe Pick
August 1, 2016Author: Bloomberg & USA Today
Categories: In the News
Former environment minister Yuriko Koike will have the spotlight more than any previous woman in Japanese politics after Tokyo elected her on Sunday as the prefecture’s first female governor, Sasakawa USA’s Tobias Harris said in a Bloomberg article reporting on the election.
Tags: 2020 Olympics, bloomberg, election, governor, gubernatorial election, in the news, Japan, kirk spitzer, LDP, Liberal Democratic Party, Politics, Shinzo Abe, Tokyo, Tokyo Olympics, usa today, womenomics, yuriko koike
Japan Political Pulse: On the Olympic stadium and beyond, let’s choose our future
June 8, 2015Author: Mainichi Shimbun
Categories: Views
Tags: 2020 Olympics, Olympic, stadium
2020 Olympics a chance to boost awareness about environmental issues
May 4, 2015Author: Mainichi Shimbun
Categories: Views
An editorial discussing the role that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could play in raising awareness of environmental problems.
Tags: 2020 Olympics, editorial, environmental issues, Tokyo, 環境問題