Hisane Masaki
Editor Japan
Editor Japan
Hisane Masaki is a Tokyo-based journalist, commentator and scholar on Japanese and international political and economic affairs. He worked for the Japan Times, Japan’s biggest English daily, for nearly 20 years (Apr.1985-Dec. 2004), and got numerous international scoops. Masaki served as the Japan Times’ national news editor (Oct.2000-Oct.2002) and then as its foreign news editor (Oct.2002-Dec.2004). After leaving the Japan Times, Masaki served as Director of Research at the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR), a leading Japanese think tank in Tokyo specializing in international affairs, (Dec.2004-Feb.2005) and concurrently served as a Steering Committee Member and Executive Secretary at the Council on East Asian Community (CEAC), another leading think tank in Tokyo. JFIR is chaired by Takashi Imai, former chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and CEAC is chaired by former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. Now Masaki writes analyses and columns regularly for Asia Times and other publications. He also serves as an Intellectual Member of the JFIR’s Policy Council. Masaki graduated from Waseda University in Mar.1985. He is professor of international politics and economics at IOND University, from which he received Honorary Ph.D. in international political economics in Apr. 2005.
Articles by Hisane Masaki
- Japan's bank crisis resolved, others remain
- Japan starts Kyoto climate drive - in reverse
- Testing time for Japan's US ties
- Fukuda launches his 'do or die' cabinet
- Fukuda heads Japan's leadership race
- Embattled Japanese PM takes a political gamble
- More proof of the Rising Sun's eclipse
- Japan's farm export drive bearing fruit
- Japan goes prospecting for rare metals
- Early countdown to Japan rate rise
- Japan's birth rate rises - barely
- An awkward visitor for Tokyo and Beijing
- Japan’s historic step toward the first revision of its postwar pacifist constitution
- Japan revs up its Indochina diplomacy
- Japan, China as anchors of financial stability
- New energy to Japan's diplomacy
- A dry run for a Japan-US FTA
- Abe trumpets Iraq support ahead of US visit
- 'Axis of democracy' flexes its military muscles
- Japan shields itself from attack
- Abe fails to dash forward in Year of the Boar
- The emerging axis of democracy
- Japan, China gear up for gas talks
- Japan in a bind over North Korea
- The great Japan-Mongolia love affair
- Oil-hungry Japan looks to other sources
- Happy birthday to Kyoto, but ...
- Japan's dovish defense minister
- The political stakes are rising in Japan
- Free trade: Japan and ... Switzerland?!
- Is Japan a Cultural Looter?
- Japanese bigwig on surprise Pyongyang visit
- Japan banks on energy, environment
- Slow starter Japan revs up FTA drive
- Japan, US tune up defense policies
- Qatar, Japan's energy white knight
- Japan inches toward a full-fledged military
- Japanese nukes: Voicing the unthinkable
- Japan energy: Goodbye Iran, hello Iraq
- Japan’s Culture Day and Constitution
- Russian energy roulette spooks Japanese
- Japan: A boom without much bang
- Japan's energy drive stalls over Iran
- Where will Abe lead Japan?
- A Silver Lining for Graying Japan
- Japan pumps public funds into its energy drive
- Japan pushes the boundaries of self-defense
- Japan Averts Royal Succession Crisis
- Japan firmly on a conservative path
- Tokyo to bid for Olympic glory
- Japan Faces a New Russia
- Japan takes on China in Africa
- Watch Koizumi on WW2 Anniversary
- Japan joins the energy race
- Japan in Iraq: Goodbye troops, hello aid
- Japan starts down the rate-cycle path
- Is Taiwan's opposition leader anti-Japan?
- N Korea's missiles met by Japanese sanctions
- Japan's dilemma over Iran
- Japan's face-saving exit from Iraq
- Japan Inc smitten by Vietnam
- Japan puts more pressure on North Korea
- A two-horse race to succeed Koizumi
- Japan: Another 'Hills tribesman' brought down
- Japan's auto makers focus on key markets
- Toshiba's future: Nukes and NANDs
- Japan’s no-name economic boom
- Okinawa: Now for the hard work
- Japan, a would-be cultural guardian
- Japan's appetite for uranium is growing
- Japan’s Drive in Central Asia
- Japan a bigger player on global oil stage
- Japan's auto success fuels US trade alarm
- Japan goes shopping at the village stall
- Japan signals end of world's cheap money era
- Rivalry with China refuels Japan's FTA drive
- A farewell to zero
- Beijing steps up Koizumi bashing
- Japanese firms in carbon reduction rush
- Cartoon row evokes memory of 'Satanic Verses' murder
- The end of Koizumi's reign
- Oil spike lubricates Japan's economy
- Sunset for Japanese chip makers?
- Japan's 2006 diplomacy
- Okinawa plan for US forces inches ahead
- Japan revs up farm export drive
- Japan's new energy strategy
- Year of the Rooster nothing to crow about
- Japan puts its defense in order
- Putin's Diplomatic Victory in Tokyo: Regional perspective on Russia-Japan Relations
- Where is Japan Heading?
- China, Japan tug-of-war over Indochina