With a selective eye, I try to capture the sweep of Japan’s politics, foreign policy, demographics, culture, the arts and environment. I am particularly interested in the role of gender, Japan’s approach to aging and its declining birthrate, and the evolving leadership role of Japan in Asia. I try to talk to people at all levels of society, and bring in voices that may be hidden to many readers.
My Background
I was raised in New Jersey, Tokyo and California and received a B.A. in History from Yale University and an M.A. in English from Cambridge University. I have worked at The Times for 20 years, covering real estate, publishing, economics and education. I started my career in journalism at the Financial Times in London and worked for The Wall Street Journal in Atlanta and New York. I now live in Tokyo with my family.
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Producers of “The Boyfriend” on Netflix hope it will encourage broader acceptance of the L.G.B.T.Q. community in Japan, which still has not legalized same-sex unions.
Across Asia and Europe, the event stoked concerns about American stability, both domestically and on crucial foreign policy issues like Washington’s commitment to alliances.
His embrace of North Korea and deal making with Vietnam injected more potential threats into a region already strained by Taiwan tensions and South China Sea clashes.
A lawsuit challenges the onerous requirements for getting sterilized, calling the regulations paternalistic and a violation of women’s constitutional rights.
While the agreement rattled officials in South Korea and Japan, the two U.S. allies in recent years have been expecting growing security challenges from North Korea.
The move blocked a resolution to support a status that Palestinians had long sought at the United Nations, where it is considered a “nonmember observer state.”
Her movies try to explain why Japan is the way it is, showing both the upsides and downsides of the country’s commonplace practices. Her latest film focuses on an elementary school.
Some Japanese spectators are grumbling that foreign concertgoers visiting Tokyo don’t share their rather restrained local approach to taking in a show.
Moscow may be trying to help Pyongyang with access to the international financial system in exchange for missiles and ammunition, U.S.-allied intelligence officials suggest.