Masami Ito, Hiroko Nakata
Masami Ito is a staff writer who has been covering national politics since 2006. She joined The Japan Times in 2001, and she also keeps an eye on issues related to the death penalty, asylum-seekers and international parental kidnapping.
Hiroko Nakata is a staff writer and editor at The Japan Times. She chases dynamism in the business world, something missing in Japanese politics. A Keio alumna with a political science degree, she was formerly at Reuters.
