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WATARU SAWAMURA is editor-in-chief of morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun. Born and raised in Tokyo, he joined the paper in 1986 and has held various positions including New York correspondent, London correspondent and Paris bureau chief. From 2009 to 2011, he served as foreign editor, supervising the company’s 30 foreign bureaus and 50 correspondents. From 2011 to 2013 he was appointed as European editor (in London) responsible for covering European issues and the London Olympic games. From 2013 to 2014, he was a visiting professor at Tsinghua University’s Journalism School in Beijing.
PATRICK WELTER has served as economics editor, reporter and editorial writer for the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, since 2002. From 2007 till 2009 he was based in Tokyo, and after five years in North America, he returns to Tokyo for a second term. He began his journalism career in 1995 with Handelsblatt, the German financial daily, after researching economic policy at Cologne University. As Northeast Asia correspondent he covers politics and economics from Japan, Korea and Taiwan. He also contributes to the Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung. Besides his work as journalist, Patrick has published scholarly articles on economic policy seen from an Austrian point of view, and published a book on the IMF in 2004. He collaborated with the German economist Clemens Fuest on several studies on economic freedom.
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Hiroshi Ohno, Advance News Co., Ltd.
Mie Ido, Office Mie Ido
REINSTATEMENT (P/JA)
Naoki Mori, Edit Inc.
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Abolfazl Amouei, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Sergio Inclan, Embassy of Mexico
Andrew Joyce, Metlife Insurance K.K.
Chieko Gyobu, Panasonic Corporation
Katsuyoshi Iwata, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Technology Corp.
Tomoyuki Sugiyama, Kyowa Shipping Co., Ltd.
Toshio Takahashi, TM Best House K.K.
Junichiro Toda, Toda Ship Co., Ltd.
Tetsuo Kanno, WACOM Co., Ltd.
Masao Nagamatsu, Lush Japan Co., Ltd.
Yasuhiro Shimizu
Toshihisa Shibata, VIXI Corporation, Japan
Yasuaki Wakui, Kuraray Co., Ltd.
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Isao Saito, U & IHR Consulting
