Yoichi funabashi biography of christopher

Funabashi Yoichi is an award-winning Japanese journalist, columnist and author.

Additionally, in another study, Funabashi argued that Japan should be a “global civilian power”, a great power that voluntarily ties itself to inter- national.

He acquired his Ph.D.

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This book represents the first private and non governmental indigenous effort to stimulate public debate of Japanese foreign policy.

Funabashi, Yoichi ().

He has written extensively on foreign affairs, the US-Japan Alliance, economics and historical issues in the Asia Pacific.

He has a distinguished 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 Chief (1993-97).

In 2016 he became the first Japanese laureate of Stanford University’s prestigious Shorenstein Journalism Award. In 2013 he won the Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award for his book on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident ‘Countdown to Meltdown,’ he won the Japan Press Award known as Japan’s “Pulitzer Prize” in 1994 for his columns on international affairs, his articles in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy won the Ishibashi Tanzan Prize in 1992 and in 1985 he received the Vaughn-Ueda Prize for his reporting on international affairs.

His books in English include: The Peninsula Question (Brookings Institutio