HENRY TRICKS is The Economist’s bureau chief in Tokyo, covering Japan and North and South Korea. Before moving to Japan, he was the paper’s finance editor in London from 2006 until 2009 during the global financial crisis, and before that he was briefly capital markets’ editor. Tricks worked at the Financial Times from 1997-2005. In London he wrote for the FT’s Lex column, as well as covering the property industry and British business. He was also the FT’s bureau chief in Mexico from 1997 until 2000. Tricks started his career at Reuters in Mexico, New York and Washington. He is married with two children.

DETLEF REHN, representative correspondent, Tokyo Office, Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI), was born in 1949 and is an economist by profession. He graduated from Bonn University in 1976. From 1976 to 1978 he studied the Chinese language in Bonn and Beijing on a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service. Following that, he carried out research on China’s economic and high-tech development before joining the German Federal Office for Foreign Trade (BFAI) in 1988. Rehn worked for BFAI first as a correspondent in Taiwan and then in Japan, South Korea and Japan again. In his work, he writes reports mainly on the development of industrial sectors. Rehn’s articles and reports are published on the home page of the company as well as in various newspapers and magazines in Germany. In Japan, his articles may be found in the Japanmarket magazine published by the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. BFAI was merged with “Invest in Germany” in January 2009 into a new body called “Germany Trade and Invest.” Besides German and Chinese, Rehn speaks English and Japanese. Married, with no children, his hobbies are movies, long-distance running and photography.

TAKASHI MIYAAKE writes editorials and columns, mainly on European and Middle Eastern affairs, for the Yomiuri Shimbun. He studied European history at Tokyo University and joined the Yomiuri in 1980. His career as a foreign correspondent began by witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall, German unification and the first Gulf War while based in Rome. He then moved to Bonn to cover the efforts of Europe and the newly unified Germany to search for integration and a new world order. From Jerusalem, he covered the Oslo peace process. In Berlin, he concentrated on describing the integration of East and West Germany in addition to feature stories. In his last overseas assignment, as Middle East correspondent-in-chief, he tried to convey from Baghdad a true picture of Iraq, and then covered the opposition movement after the recent presidential election in Iran. He has been an editorial writer since September 2009.

REGULAR MEMBERS
Henry Tricks, The Economist Newspaper Ltd.
Takashi Miyaake, The Yomiuri Shimbun

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Detlef Rehn, Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI)

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Sonja Blaschke, Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung
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Keiko Sainowaki, Bungei Shunju Ltd.

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Shusaku Tanaka, Otsuka Museum of Art
Satoshi Inoue, Philip Morris Japan K.K.
Kazuhiko Suzuki, Itochu Corporation
Hiroshi Iwata, Japan-Austria Cultural Association
Haruko Kito, H et H
Leo Takagi, Federal Insurance Company – Japan
Tasuku Harada, Tottori University School of Medicine
Nobuyuki Taneya, BALS Corporation
Koichi Takagi
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Megumi Tezuka, All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.