Norimitsu Onishi

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Norimitsu Onishi (Japanese Katakana: ノリミツ・オオニシ, Kanji: 大西哲光) is a Japanese Canadian journalist.

Onishi was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan and immigrated to Montreal, Canada at the age of four with his parents. He attended Princeton University and served the chief editor of the student newspaper.^[1]

Onishi became Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times in August 2003, after being West Africa bureau chief since October 1998. Previously, he had been a metropolitan reporter covering City Hall for a year. He was Queens bureau chief from March 1995 to September 1997; rewrite and city weekly reporter from July 1994 to March 1995, and police reporter from January to July 1994. He joined the newspaper in December 1993. Prior to joining The Times, Onishi was a reporter for The Detroit Free Press from 1992 until 1993.

Onishi is known for his anti-Japanese articles that appear in the New York Times and others. "LETTER FROM ASIA: Why Japan Seems Content to Be Run by One Party", for example, provoked an official objection statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan for being "an incorrect article."^{[2] [3]} Because of the harsh criticism of Japan his articles are often quoted as representing the viewpoint of the leading U.S. news media by liberal papers in Japan such as the Asahi Shimbun,^[4] while being highly unpopular among and criticized by the conservative medias of Japan. ^{[5] [6]}

Onishi is also referred to as being a former naturalized Japanese citizen of Korean descent rather than pure Japanese in several articles. ^{[7] [8]}

[edit] References

1. ^ Asahi Shimbun, September 21, 2003.
2. ^ Norimitsu Onishi, "LETTER FROM ASIA: Why Japan Seems Content to Be Run by One Party" (New York Times, September 7, 2005)
3. ^ "Domination of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan compared with that of the Communist party in China; Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affair protested against the New York Times' article" (Ja: 自民党「支配」中朝と同一視　米紙ＮＹタイムズ報道 外務省、不公正と“抗議”) (Sankei Shimbun, September 23, 2005)
4. ^ The branch office of the New York Times is hosted in a building owned by the Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo.
5. ^ Kohyu Nishimura, "Chief correspondent of Tokyo branch office of the NYT: an anti-Japan sprinkler spreading distorted and biased articles all over the world" (Ja:反日スプリンクラーとして世界に歪曲・偏向記事を垂れ流すＮＹＴ東京支局長) (SAPIO, May 10, 2006, pp. 76-78)
6. ^ Yoshihisa Komori, "Study of anti-Japan propaganda circulating around the world" ( Ja: 世界の「反日レッド・ペーパー」研究 〜日本悪玉論を喧伝する国際偏向報道に反撃を〜) (Seiron, December 1, 2006, pp. 54-58)
7. ^ Masayuki Takayama, "A mimic: a non-Japanese Japanese" (Ja: 変幻自在 207: 似非日本人) (Shukan Shincho, July 13, 2006, p. 146)
8. ^ "'Chief correspondent of Tokyo branch office of the NYT fond of anti-Japanese idea" (Ja: 「NYタイムズ」東京支局長は「反日記事」がお好き) (Shukan Shincho, March, 2003, p. 58)

[edit] External links

• Contributed articles by Norimitsu Onishi in the New York Times.[1]