The Tokyo International Conference on African Development held in Yokohama last week attracted not only delegations from 52 African nations but also some 300 registered journalists from overseas.
Many of the journalists from Africa had a hectic time covering the conference while wrestling with the time difference between Japan and their home nations and the culture of an unfamiliar country.
Amadou Abdoul Sakho, a 46-year-old journalist for Panapress, a Senegal-based news agency and the only reporter covering the conference for his agency, said he had a tough time contending with the nine-hour time difference.