Yoichiro Tateiwa

Yoichiro Tateiwa

Journalist-in-Residence

Yoichiro Tateiwa has been a reporter for the Japanese public television network, NHK, since 1991. He came to the Investigative Reporting Workshop in the summer of 2010 to spend a year studying American nonprofit investigative journalism initiatives.

Early in is career he was based in the NHK Okinawa bureau, covering the police and the U.S. forces in Okinawa. In 1995, he was part of NHK's team covering the Hanshin earthquake.

In 1996, he became a foreign correspondent for NHK. He became Teheran bureau chief in 1997, but the Iranian government expelled him in 1998 for reporting stories critical of the government. He later spent a year in Iraq covering the war and related developments.

Since 2006 he has been a chief correspondent in the investigative unit of NHK's Osaka bureau.

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