Award winning Journalist, broadcaster, novelist and poet.
He attended Kansai Gakuin and the Meiji Gakuin, Japanese colleges, majoring in literature. He worked in Tokyo as an editor for the Kokusai Joho Sha before going to the U.S. arriving on October 10, 1926, as a foreign correspondent for a Japanese publication, International Graphic Magazine, in New York City and then transferring to Los Angeles. When his employer went bankrupt he worked for other Japanese newspapers in San Francisco and Los Angeles. From 1932 he was employed by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. He left the U.S. for almost two years in 1937 and 1938, working as a Japanese War Correspondent in Manchuria and traveling Europe before returning to the U.S. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor he was interned in the Granada Relocation Center in Colorado for a time. During the war he worked as an instructor in the Navy Oriental Languages School in Boulder, Colorado and in the OSS under William Donovan. Because of his work for America during WWII he was able to become a permanent American resident in 1948 by an act of Congress. After the war he worked as a radio broadcaster interviewing the likes of Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway, and U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was given the Vaughn Award in 1955, for Outstanding Japanese Foreign Correspondent. In 1971 he was awarded "The Order of the Sacred Treasure" by Emperor Hirohito, the highest honor possible from Japan for a person living outside the country.
He was during his lifetime accredited as a White House, Congressional and State Department Correspondent and the first from Japan after WWII. Also a member of the Overseas Writers Club and The National Press Club.
He attended Kansai Gakuin and the Meiji Gakuin, Japanese colleges, majoring in literature. He worked in Tokyo as an editor for the Kokusai Joho Sha before going to the U.S. arriving on October 10, 1926, as a foreign correspondent for a Japanese publication, International Graphic Magazine, in New York City and then transferring to Los Angeles. When his employer went bankrupt he worked for other Japanese newspapers in San Francisco and Los Angeles. From 1932 he was employed by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. He left the U.S. for almost two years in 1937 and 1938, working as a Japanese War Correspondent in Manchuria and traveling Europe before returning to the U.S. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor he was interned in the Granada Relocation Center in Colorado for a time. During the war he worked as an instructor in the Navy Oriental Languages School in Boulder, Colorado and in the OSS under William Donovan. Because of his work for America during WWII he was able to become a permanent American resident in 1948 by an act of Congress. After the war he worked as a radio broadcaster interviewing the likes of Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway, and U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was given the Vaughn Award in 1955, for Outstanding Japanese Foreign Correspondent. In 1971 he was awarded "The Order of the Sacred Treasure" by Emperor Hirohito, the highest honor possible from Japan for a person living outside the country.
He was during his lifetime accredited as a White House, Congressional and State Department Correspondent and the first from Japan after WWII. Also a member of the Overseas Writers Club and The National Press Club.
Award winning Journalist, broadcaster, novelist and poet.
He attended Kansai Gakuin and the Meiji Gakuin, Japanese colleges, majoring in literature. He worked in Tokyo as an editor for the Kokusai Joho Sha before going to the U.S. arriving on October 10, 1926, as a foreign correspondent for a Japanese publication, International Graphic Magazine, in New York City and then transferring to Los Angeles. When his employer went bankrupt he worked for other Japanese newspapers in San Francisco and Los Angeles. From 1932 he was employed by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. He left the U.S. for almost two years in 1937 and 1938, working as a Japanese War Correspondent in Manchuria and traveling Europe before returning to the U.S. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor he was interned in the Granada Relocation Center in Colorado for a time. During the war he worked as an instructor in the Navy Oriental Languages School in Boulder, Colorado and in the OSS under William Donovan. Because of his work for America during WWII he was able to become a permanent American resident in 1948 by an act of Congress. After the war he worked as a radio broadcaster interviewing the likes of Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway, and U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was given the Vaughn Award in 1955, for Outstanding Japanese Foreign Correspondent. In 1971 he was awarded "The Order of the Sacred Treasure" by Emperor Hirohito, the highest honor possible from Japan for a person living outside the country.
He was during his lifetime accredited as a White House, Congressional and State Department Correspondent and the first from Japan after WWII. Also a member of the Overseas Writers Club and The National Press Club.
He attended Kansai Gakuin and the Meiji Gakuin, Japanese colleges, majoring in literature. He worked in Tokyo as an editor for the Kokusai Joho Sha before going to the U.S. arriving on October 10, 1926, as a foreign correspondent for a Japanese publication, International Graphic Magazine, in New York City and then transferring to Los Angeles. When his employer went bankrupt he worked for other Japanese newspapers in San Francisco and Los Angeles. From 1932 he was employed by the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. He left the U.S. for almost two years in 1937 and 1938, working as a Japanese War Correspondent in Manchuria and traveling Europe before returning to the U.S. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor he was interned in the Granada Relocation Center in Colorado for a time. During the war he worked as an instructor in the Navy Oriental Languages School in Boulder, Colorado and in the OSS under William Donovan. Because of his work for America during WWII he was able to become a permanent American resident in 1948 by an act of Congress. After the war he worked as a radio broadcaster interviewing the likes of Amelia Earhart, Ernest Hemingway, and U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was given the Vaughn Award in 1955, for Outstanding Japanese Foreign Correspondent. In 1971 he was awarded "The Order of the Sacred Treasure" by Emperor Hirohito, the highest honor possible from Japan for a person living outside the country.
He was during his lifetime accredited as a White House, Congressional and State Department Correspondent and the first from Japan after WWII. Also a member of the Overseas Writers Club and The National Press Club.
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