Yukiko Toyoda, appointed Japan Bureau Chief in February 2022, oversees Reuters coverage in both English and Japanese spanning politics and general news to economics and business.
Previous to Reuters, she spent 25 years at Japan’s Kyodo News, where covered defence, foreign policy and the Bank of Japan and had postings in Kyodo’s Osaka and Niigata bureaus. She was the agency’s Singapore bureau chief from 2009 to 2013 and worked as a correspondent in Washington from 2015 to 2018. Most recently she was deputy editor for the investigations team, where she worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to follow the money flow examined by French prosecutors in a corruption investigation related to Tokyo’s successful bid to host the Olympics.
She has also reported extensively on the evolving defence and diplomatic ties between Japan and the United States at a time of rising tensions with China.
Yukiko Toyoda Job Title Japan Bureau Chief Company REUTERS
