The Japan Times on Tuesday announced the appointments of four distinguished individuals to The Japan Times Media Advisory Board, a committee of Japan-based experts tasked with advising the newspaper on its content.
The new advisers, whose terms start Friday, will serve for two years.
They are Kiyotaka Akasaka, president of the Foreign Press Center Japan; Azby Brown, an author and authority on Japanese architecture, design and the environment, and the founder and director of the Future Design Institute at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Martin Fackler, former Tokyo bureau chief of The New York Times and currently a senior researcher at the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation; and Haruko Satoh, a professor at the Center for the Advancement of Research and Education Exchange, Osaka University and a lecturer at the Osaka School of International Public Policy.