Ayako Mie covers Japanese politics and policies for the Japan Times. She started her career as a reporter at Tokyo Broadcasting System in 2001. In 2008, she went to journalism school at University of California, Berkeley as a Fulbright scholar. On returning to Japan in December 2010, she worked for the Washington Post as a special correspondent.
For Ayako Mie's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
The president of the Asian Development Bank said that the bank will focus more on cleaner technology and quality infrastructure to meet steeply increasing infrastructure needs in Asia, a move that could potentially help Japanese companies invest more in Asian infrastructure, while working in ...
About three years ago, Makoto Watanabe, then an investigative reporter at The Asahi Shimbun newspaper, had a "hunch," based on his experience covering the pharmaceutical industry, that an advertising agency might be paying a major news organization to write stories about certain drugs to ...
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe abruptly announced that Japan will end its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in May and withdraw the Ground Self-Defense Force's engineering troops there. The troops have been deployed to the northeast African country for the last five ...
Prime Minister Abe and U.S. President Trump on Tuesday denounced North Korea’s missile provocation, saying the launches into the Sea of Japan violated U.N. resolutions.
North Korea demonstrated its growing military capabilities with the launch of four ballistic missiles Monday, three of which fell into the Sea of Japan, in what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe characterized as "a new level of threat." Officials said the North fired the barrage at ...
When it comes to public safety and terrorism in Japan, nobody probably knows the situation better than Takaji Kunimatsu. The former chief of the National Police Agency dealt with a number of high-profile crimes during his career, including the 1972 Asama Sanso Incident, a hostage ...
Citizens groups deliver a petition to three of Japan’s biggest banks demanding that they stop funding the Dakota oil pipeline project reactivated by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Fears by Kim Jong Un over his legitimacy as North Korea’s hereditary leader due to his grandfather’s work in a Japanese military factory may have had a role in brother’s murder.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is betting a round of golf with President Donald Trump will help protect Japan’s crucial auto industry and strengthen defense ties with the U.S.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday renewed his pledge to settle a dispute with Russia over four islands off Hokkaido despite failing two months earlier to produce any visible progress during a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At an annual event used as a ...
