I’m a journalist in New York, working at The New York Times on the Opinion page. In 2025, I was part of the team named Pulitzer finalist for “At the Brink,” a series on the nuclear threat. Previously, I reported on American breaking news for The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s second-largest paper, following graduate work at The University of Tokyo. I received a bachelor’s in history from Columbia University.

Select Writing

My Generation’s Deadly Inheritance, The New York Times, August 2025

The Last Survivors Speak. It’s Time to Listen. The New York, August 2024 (Part of a Pulitzer finalist package)

In Nagasaki, Keeping the Memory of Nuclear War Alive, The New York Times, August 2024

Shinzo Abe’s State Funeral Is as Controversial as He Was, Foreign Policy, September 2022

When Tokyo Burned, Foreign Policy, May 2022

American Veterans in Ukraine (English), The Asahi Shimbun GLOBE+, April 2022

Ramen master Ivan Orkin never lost his appetite for Japan, The Asahi Shimbun, February 2022

On Photographing at Memorials, The Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2021

Behind the ‘closed’ doors of Tokyo’s bars, alcohol is still flowing, The Japan Times, September 2021

Pearl Harbor in Film and Myth: 79 Years Later, The Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2021

On the state of emergency in Tokyo (published in Japanese), Newsweek Japan, March 2020

On my family and the atom bomb (published in Japanese), Newsweek Japan, August 2019