Contributors

GAVIN BLAIR came to Japan 11 years ago to study and began his writing career working part-time for a Japanese magazine in 2000. Blair now contributes news stories and predominately business-related features to newspapers, Web sites and magazines in the U.K., U.S., Hong Kong, Ireland and Japan.

PIO d’EMILIA is Far East correspondent for Sky TG24 Italy.

GEBHARD HIELSCHER, journalist, 1971-2000 Far East Correspondent of German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung in charge of Japan, Korea and Taiwan and stationed in Tokyo, FCCJ member since 1969, president 1994/95; author of 500-page book on Korea in German (38mal KOREA, Munich 1988). Born in 1935 in Tilsit, then East Prussia (now Russia), studied law in Berlin and Freiburg, qualified as attorney under German law; spent two years in the U.S. (1953/54 and 1961/62) and one in London (1958/59) before moving to Japan in 1967; married to a Japanese, two children.

Tokyo-based journalist CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON (www.globalite.posterous.com) is author of Siamese Dreams and an upcoming novel set in Japan.

RODNEY JOYCE is Reuters’ Tokyo Bureau Chief.

PETRA KOLONKO is the East Asia Correspondent of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

DAVID McNEILL writes for The Irish Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Independent. He teaches a course on journalism at Sophia University and is a coordinator of Japan Focus: www.japanfocus.org.

JULIAN RYALL is the Japan correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.

HENRY SCOTT STOKES is a Tokyo-based freelance journalist, working primarily with Institutional Investor and Alpha, the sister magazine of II, specializing in the hedge-fund industry. He has been a member of the Club since 1964, when he arrived in Japan to open the Financial Times office in Otemachi.