PROFILE

Sayuri Daimon graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Sophia University and joined The Japan Times in 1991 as a politics and economics reporter. She became head of the news department in 2006, the first woman to be named executive officer in charge of editorial affairs in 2013, and an editorial board member until she left in 2020. Currently, Ms. Daimon is involved in the editing of Business Insider Japan and JStories and lectures at two universities. She is a regular commentator on Japan TV's DayDay Monday, and commentator on NHK Radio’s "Learning Modern English through the News". She is on the Board of Trustees of the Foreign Press Center. Ms. Daimon studied journalism and American politics at Harvard University as a Niemann Research Fellow and conducted research at the King Faisal Institute in Saudi Arabia. In 2016, she received the Japan Women Award for Leader of Innovation from Forbes Japan. She is the author of "The Japan Times News Desk: Information Power for Women Living in a Global Society" (The Japan Times) and "Global Strategy Discussed at Harvard University" (Kobunsha). She is serializing "The World and Japan Interpreted from the Media of Sayuri Daimon" on President Woman Online.