Sayuri Daimon

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:

Lack of diversity hurts Japan: Saito

| Jan 23, 2013

Lack of diversity hurts Japan: Saito

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 ...

Ex-envoy to U.S. heartened by eventful stint

Dec 8, 2012

Ex-envoy to U.S. heartened by eventful stint

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 ...

Harvard visitors get eye-opener in Tohoku, meet Noda, key officials

Mar 25, 2012

Harvard visitors get eye-opener in Tohoku, meet Noda, key officials

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 ...

Tohoku students share tales of disasters on global stage

Sep 22, 2011

Tohoku students share tales of disasters on global stage

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 ...

Aug 14, 2010

Hawaiian spreads its wings via Haneda debut

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 ...

Jun 5, 2010

Likeable, shows promise, but Tarutoko who?

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 ...

| Jun 2, 2010

Holdout singles stalling birthrate

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 ...