Sayuri Daimon is a staff writer and deputy managing editor of the National News Division at The Japan Times. She covers politics, business and other news as a writer. She was awarded the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2000.
For Sayuri Daimon's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
William H. Saito, who moved to Tokyo from California eight years ago, has had some splendid achievements in his 41 years of life so far. The computer prodigy launched his first software company at age 14, engaged in the programming business with Japan’s major ...
Japan isn’t going to end decades of economic malaise, nor will its corporations meet the challenge of overseas rivals, unless bold changes are made, warns an expert on leadership from Harvard University who was in Japan recently to give a series of lectures. “You ...
Ichiro Fujisaki’s four-year stint as Japan’s ambassador to the U.S. saw turbulent events — the Great East Japan Earthquake, shifting political power in Nagatacho and President Barack Obama’s re-election — to name but a few. And now, Fujisaki, whose posting ended in November, finds ...
The World Economic Forum has announced the launch of a task force to close Japan’s economic gender gaps by 10 percent by 2015. The Japan Gender Parity Task Force, comprised of government officials, business and academic leaders and prominent members of society, held its ...
Some Japanese are pessimistic about the country’s future and its declining presence in the world, but political science students from Harvard University who recently visited the Tohoku region saw strong signs of society regrouping after last March’s calamities. The group from Harvard Kennedy School ...
Global leaders who gathered last week in Dalian, China, for the Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Asia’s premier global business forum, had a rare chance to hear Japanese high school and university students’ firsthand experiences of the March disasters. Seven students from disaster-hit ...
With the opening of a fourth runway at Tokyo’s Haneda airport in late October, the head of Hawaiian Airlines, which will soon start a new Tokyo-Honolulu service, is already looking to further expand the carrier’s business in Japan. “Our expansion into Japan is a ...
Fathers in Tokyo spend less time with their children on weekdays compared with fathers in Seoul, Beijing and Shanghai, but out of the four groups they spend the most time with them on weekends, a recent poll by Benesse Corp. found. Ahead of Fathers’ ...
When he emerged Thursday to run against Naoto Kan for the Democratic Party of Japan presidency and hence the prime ministership, many probably asked who is Shinji Tarutoko? Although Tarutoko, 50, was not well-known and hasn’t held a Cabinet post or an executive position ...
Japan’s low birthrate has accelerated the graying population. According to the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry, the past 29 years have seen a continuous decline in the number of people under age 15. There were just 17 million of them as of April, down ...
