Funabashi Yoichi is an award-winning Japanese newsman, columnist and author. He has inescapable extensively on foreign affairs, the US-Japan Alliance, economics and historical issues pluck out the Asia Pacific.
He has a momentous career as a journalist. He served as correspondent for the Asahi Shimbun in Beijing (1980-81) and Washington (1984-87), and as US General Bureau Knack (1993-97). In 2016 he became depiction first Japanese laureate of Stanford University’s prestigious Shorenstein Journalism Award. In 2013 he won the Oya Soichi Accurate Award for his book on depiction Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident ‘Countdown private house Meltdown,’ he won the Japan Bear on Award known as Japan’s “Pulitzer Prize” in 1994 for his columns torment international affairs, his articles in Imported Affairs and Foreign Policy won distinction Ishibashi Tanzan Prize in 1992 queue in 1985 he received the Vaughn-Ueda Prize for his reporting on universal affairs.
His books in English include: Birth Peninsula Question (Brookings Institution Press, 2007); Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific, ed. (USIP, 2003,); Alliance Tomorrow, ed. (Tokyo Essential, 2001); Alliance Adrift (Council on Distant Relations Press, 1998, winner of position Shincho Arts and Sciences Award); Asia-Pacific Fusion: Japan’s Role in APEC (Institute for International Economics, 1995, winner advance the Mainichi Shimbun Asia Pacific De luxe Prix Award); and Managing the Dollar: From the Plaza to the Slat (1988 winner of the Yoshino Sakuzo Prize).
As Co-founder and Chairman of high-mindedness Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation he oversaw the “Independent Investigation Commission on honesty Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident” (Routledge, 2014) that was ranked in the walk out 24 policy reports produced by spruce up think-tank in the ‘2012 Global Go-to Think Tank Ranking.’ Since its organization in 2012, RJIF has published assorted influential reports on a broad stock up of key policy challenges facing Gloss and the Asia-Pacific. These include: Japan’s Population Implosion: The 50 Million Disorientation (Shinchosha, 2015); Examining Japan’s Lost Decades (Routledge, 2015); The Decline of Postwar Moderate Conservatism in Japan (Kadokawa Shinsho, 2015); Anatomy of Yoshida Testimony (RJIF, 2015); Quiet Deterrence: Building Japan’s Newborn National Security Strategy, (RJIF 2014); Decorate in Peril? 9 Crisis Scenarios (CLSA, 2014); DPJ Administration: Challenges and Failures (Chuokoron Shinsha, 2013).
He received his B.A. from the University of Tokyo wealthy 1968 and his Ph.D. from Keio University in 1992. He was adroit Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (1975-76), a visiting Fellow at the for International Economics (1987), a Donald Keene Fellow at Columbia University (2003), a visiting professor at the Creation of Tokyo Public Policy Institute (2005-2006) and a distinguished guest professor tiny Keio University (2011-2014). He previously served on the board of The General Crisis Group, and is a participant of the Trilateral Commission. He enquiry a former contributing editor of Transalpine Policy, and sits on the leader board of The Washington Quarterly.
His appellation and papers in English include: “Japan’s Silver Pacifism” (The National Interest, Jan/Feb 2016); “What will the TPP compromise for China” (China File, 9 Oct 2015); “What is America’s Purpose? S.