I have been working as a staff writer of the Asahi Shimbun since 1994 and currently serving as the executive director of an international peace symposium "The Road to Nuclear Weapons Abolition," that the Asahi Shimbun co-sponsors every summer with the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I have worked mainly in Osaka, social affairs and local news section, involved in special projects looking back on Japan's War, such as a project to find out the Korean people who had appeared in articles and photos of our newspaper during the Japanese colonial period. 2011-14, I worked as a Seoul correspondent. The most impressive work was a report on a Korean who joined in the Korean war as a member of a volunteer corps from Japan and were separated from their families. His interview and article was aired as the documentary program "My Daughter Miyoko" on KBS. I began reporting on Koreans in Japan since 2000 when the first South-North summit was held, and learned history from many first-generation of Zainichi, especially from poet, Kim Si-jong, who left Jeju Island and crossed the sea to survive during the Jeju 4.3 incident. My publications include "Living in Colonial Korea: A Message from a hundred-year-old former teacher.