Masayoshi Tanaka

News Editor, International News Division

Masayoshi Tanaka is a news editor for International News Division, NHK.
After the quake and the tsunami on March 11, he was dispatched to disaster area in Kamaishi as a news reporter. Later, he went to Sendai and Morioka as well to cover the aftermath of the disaster.
He has been an international news correspondent throughout his career with NHK, working as a correspondent based in Paris, Shanghai, and Beijing.

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1967 Born

1992 Graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Joined NHK as a news reporter, assigned to NHK Yokohama

1997 Reporter, International News Division

1999 Assigned to Nairobi, Kenya

2000 Correspondent, Paris Bureau

2004 Reporter, International News Division

2006 Correspondent, Shanghai Bureau

2008 Correspondent, Beijing Bureau/General Bureau for China

2011 News Editor, International News Division