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KIMIKO AOKI is an executive producer at NHK Enterprises. She has previously held positions as chief editor of the program NHK World Newsline, London bureau chief, New York correspondent, Hiroshima correspondent and managing editor of the NHK Kaigai Network.
KEN MORITSUGU has been named Japan bureau chief of the Associated Press. Born in Montreal, Moritsugu is a naturalized U.S. citizen who holds an undergraduate degree in economics with a certificate in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. Moritsugu started his reporting career for the Japan Times in 1984. He later was a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times and Newsday, an economics correspondent in Washington for Knight-Ridder and a New Delhi-based freelance journalist. Since joining the AP as enterprise editor based in Bangkok in 2007, Moritsugu has overseen major projects and in-depth, investigative and data journalism throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
SAKI OUCHI has been the chief manager, international affairs at the Yomiuri Shimbun since Sept. 2013. She joined the paper in 1986, after graduating from Tokyo University. Saki has mainly worked in the International News Department, with posts to Washington from 1992 to 1996, Geneva from 1999 to 2003, and once again to Geneva from 2008 before being transferred to London in 2009. Upon returning to Tokyo in 2012, she was Deputy Editor at the International News Desk.
REGULAR MEMBERS
Ken Moritsugu, AP
Kimiko Aoki, NHK
REINSTATEMENT (REGULAR MEMBER
Saki Ouchi, the Yomiuri Shimbun
PROFESSIONAL/JOURNALIST ASSOCIATE MEMBER
Akihiro Miyata, Ray Productions
STATUS CHANGE (FROM ASSOCIATE TO PROFESSIONAL/JOURNALIST ASSOCIATE)
Takeya Yamasaki, International Eye, Inc.
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Takashi Usuki, Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd.
Akio Makiyama, Forum for Urban Development Co., Ltd.
Ichiro Miyake, Standard & Poor's Ratings Japan K.K.
Masahiro Fukuzawa, Takaoka Toko Co., Ltd.
Noboru Otani, Espritline Inc.
REINSTATEMENT (ASSOCIATE)
Akira Kamiya, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co., Ltd.
