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440 journalists in Japan at 77 outlets, 15 with a work email. Last updated October 2026.
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journalistlabs-japan-journalists.csv
440 rows × 10 columns
15 work emails
| Name | Title | Outlet | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hidetake Miyamoto | Caribbean Islands Correspondent | Nikkei | not found |
| Itaru Oishi | Washington Bureau Chief | Nikkei | not found |
| Arran Scott | Chief Editor, Economics Research | Bloomberg | not found |
| Isabel Reynolds | Bureau Chief | Bloomberg | not found |
| Kazunori Miura | Deputy Editor in Chief, Public Welfare | Jiji Press | not found |
| Masaki Kondo | London Bureau Chief | Jiji Press | not found |
| Kawabata Tai | Chief Editorial Writer | The Japan Times | not found |
| Takashi Yokota | Editor-in-chief | The Japan Times | not found |
The first 8 rows of the file in four of its 10 columns: name, title, title_raw, outlet, country, role, seniority, beat, beat_in_title, email. Emails are masked here and complete in the CSV.
Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.
Findings
- 15 of the 440 rows (3.4%) carry a work email in the CSV.
- The ten outlets with the most rows hold 77.5% of the list, led by Nikkei (135), Bloomberg (58) and Jiji Press (33).
- Other editorial make up 16.8% of this list, against 5.2% of all 127,602 journalists on file.
- The beats named most: finance and markets (22), economics (14), foreign affairs (14).
- 93 rows (21.1%) carry a senior title: chief, executive, deputy or senior.
Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.
Rows 9 to 30 of 440
| Name | Title | Outlet | Country | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayaka Hatta | News Director | NHK World Japan | Japan | not found |
| Hatsuki Kato | News Director | NHK World Japan | Japan | not found |
| Leika Kihara | Chief Correspondent, Japan Policy | Reuters | Japan | not found |
| Yukiko Toyoda | Japan Bureau Chief | Reuters | Japan | not found |
| Jason Douglas | Tokyo Bureau Chief | The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones) | Japan | not found |
| Akiko Miyahara | Web Editor | The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones) | Japan | not found |
| Alice Philipson | Tokyo Deputy News Editor | AFP | Japan | not found |
| Kyoko Hasegawa | Staff Writer | AFP | Japan | not found |
| Aaron Kidd | Pacific Bureau Chief | Stars and Stripes | Japan | not found |
| Frank Andrews | Staff Writer | Stars and Stripes | Japan | not found |
| Ikuei Kakiuchi | Editor-in-chief, It(Atmark-it) | Itmedia Inc | Japan | not found |
| Taizo Nishio | Editor-in-chief | Itmedia Inc | Japan | not found |
| Ayaka McGill | Video Journalist | Associated Press | Japan | not found |
| Miki Toda | Video Journalist | Associated Press | Japan | not found |
| Hisako Ueno | Reporter Researcher | The New York Times | Japan | h•••@nytimes.com |
| Javier C. Hernández | Reporter | The New York Times | Japan | j•••@nytimes.com |
| Kyoichi Iwase | Commissioning Editor | Pearson | Japan | not found |
| Murata Tsuyoshi | Acquisitions Editor | Pearson | Japan | not found |
| John Haigh | Chief Editor | US Frontline News | Japan | not found |
| Akemi Shimizu | Editor | US Frontline News | Japan | not found |
| Leo Lewis | Tokyo Bureau Chief | Financial Times | Japan | not found |
| Michiyo Nakamoto | Deputy Bureau Chief, Tokyo | Financial Times | Japan | not found |
Emails are masked here and complete in the CSV. Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.
Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026
What the 440 rows hold
Countries
| Rows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 440 | 100.0% |
Roles
| Rows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Editors | 165 | 37.5% |
| Reporters | 131 | 29.8% |
| Other editorial | 74 | 16.8% |
| Correspondents | 45 | 10.2% |
| Anchors and presenters | 12 | 2.7% |
| Columnists | 10 | 2.3% |
| News producers | 3 | 0.7% |
Seniority
| Rows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Staff | 60 | 13.6% |
| Senior | 34 | 7.7% |
| Chief | 30 | 6.8% |
| Deputy | 24 | 5.5% |
| Executive | 5 | 1.1% |
287 titles name no rank.
Job titles
| Staff Writer | 53 |
| Journalist | 35 |
| Editor | 34 |
| Reporter | 31 |
| Correspondent | 14 |
| Senior Staff Writer | 13 |
| Deputy Editor | 11 |
| Senior Editor | 10 |
| News Reporter | 10 |
| Managing Editor | 9 |
Beats named
| Finance and markets | 22 |
| Economics | 14 |
| Foreign affairs | 14 |
| Technology | 9 |
| Business | 8 |
| Culture and arts | 8 |
| Sports | 7 |
| Politics | 5 |
| Climate and environment | 4 |
| Investigative | 4 |
Outlets
| Nikkei | 135 |
| Bloomberg | 58 |
| Jiji Press | 33 |
| The Japan Times | 32 |
| NHK World Japan | 28 |
| Reuters | 17 |
| The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones) | 11 |
| AFP | 10 |
| Stars and Stripes | 9 |
| Itmedia Inc | 8 |
Rows in the list. Source: JournalistLabs, October 2026.
How the list was built
The list holds every journalist on file whose profile places them in Japan, at any outlet.
We started from 462 rows. 22 were dropped because the job title names work outside reporting and editing: video, picture and sound editors, photographers and camera crews, assistants, interns, designers, social media and audience staff. 56 titles were cleaned of outlet names, dates and run-on text; the CSV keeps the original in the title_raw column.
A row is listed only when the name, the job title, the outlet and the country are all present. Work emails sit at the outlet's mail domain and were found before the list went on sale; the email_status column says whether the mail server confirmed the address (verified) or it follows the outlet's dominant address pattern on a server that accepts every address (pattern). Where neither applies the cell is blank, and the counts above say how many rows that is. The profiles were collected in July and August 2026. Method.
Questions
- How many journalists in Japan are on the list?
- 440 at 77 outlets in 1 country. By role: editors 165, reporters 131, other editorial 74, correspondents 45.
- Does the list include email addresses?
- 15 of the 440 rows (3.4%) have a work email at the outlet's mail domain: 14 confirmed by the mail server, 1 built from the outlet's dominant address pattern where the server accepts every address (marked in the email_status column). The other rows have a blank email cell. Nothing is added after the sale: the file you download is the file described here.
- What is in each row?
- Name, job title, the job title as the profile reads it (title_raw), outlet, country, role, seniority, beat, work email and email_status (verified or pattern). One CSV file that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or any CRM.
- Which countries are covered?
- Japan 440.
- Can I see the list before buying?
- The first 30 rows are on this page. A 25-row sample with the full emails comes by email.
- Which rows were removed?
- 22 rows whose job title names work outside reporting and editing: video and picture editors, photographers, camera crews, assistants, interns, designers, social media and audience staff.
- How does it compare to Muck Rack or Cision?
- Muck Rack, Cision and Meltwater sell annual subscriptions and do not publish prices; Semrush's AI PR Toolkit costs $149 to $499 a month (28 October 2026). This list is $29 once, no account, and the file is yours. Comparison of 10 media databases.
- Which outlets in Japan have the most journalists?
- Nikkei (135), Bloomberg (58), Jiji Press (33), The Japan Times (32), NHK World Japan (28), Reuters (17).
Related lists
- Journalists at Nikkei 193
- Journalists at Bloomberg 1,635
- Journalists at Reuters 633
- Journalists at The Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones) 1,375
- Journalists at AFP 760
- Journalists at Associated Press 888
- Journalists at The New York Times 1,847
- Journalists at HuffPost 160
- Journalists in the United States 61,457
- Journalists in the United Kingdom 10,567
- Journalists in India 6,135
- Journalists in Australia 3,744
Cite this
JournalistLabs, 440 journalists in Japan, October 2026, https://journalistlabs.com/journalists/country/japan/.
Base: 127,602 journalists on file. Method: https://journalistlabs.com/method/.
The newsroom count in Japan
506 journalists are on file in Japan, 0.4% of the 127,602 on file. 147 are reporters and 193 are editors.
Source: JournalistLabs
Japan has 1.31 editors on file for every reporter. Across the whole file it is 54,548 editors to 46,013 reporters. Source: JournalistLabs.
Roles
| Role | Journalists | Share in Japan |
|---|---|---|
| Editors | 193 | 38.1% |
| Reporters | 147 | 29.1% |
| Other editorial | 93 | 18.4% |
| Correspondents | 46 | 9.1% |
| Anchors and presenters | 14 | 2.8% |
| Columnists | 10 | 2.0% |
| News producers | 3 | 0.6% |
Source: JournalistLabs.
Beats
155 of the 506 journalists on file in Japan carry a beat word in their title or headline. The shares below are of those titled rows.
| Beat | Titled journalists | Share of titled rows |
|---|---|---|
| Finance and markets | 26 | 16.8% |
| Foreign affairs | 19 | 12.3% |
| Economics | 16 | 10.3% |
| Business | 14 | 9.0% |
| Culture and arts | 11 | 7.1% |
| Technology | 10 | 6.5% |
| Politics | 10 | 6.5% |
| Sports | 7 | 4.5% |
| Health | 5 | 3.2% |
| Investigative | 5 | 3.2% |
| Climate and environment | 4 | 2.6% |
| AI | 4 | 2.6% |
A share is printed only when the country's titled rows reach 40. Source: JournalistLabs.
Other countries
- United States 69,377
- United Kingdom 12,094
- India 7,656
- Australia 4,170
- Canada 3,026
- Sweden 1,879
- Germany 1,643
- South Africa 1,530
- Indonesia 1,520
- France 1,369
- Denmark 1,125
- Brazil 1,024
- Italy 907
- Singapore 787
- Spain 770
- Turkey 742
- Ireland 717
- Hong Kong 644
- Philippines 632
- Nigeria 605
- Pakistan 562
- Norway 550
- Belgium 536
- China 535
- Israel 530
- Egypt 525
- Netherlands 512
- United Arab Emirates 503
- New Zealand 439
- Finland 408
- Mexico 406
- Bangladesh 395
- Slovenia 343
- South Korea 339
- Poland 323
- Kenya 289
- Argentina 279
- Russia 264
- Romania 263
- Portugal 236
- Lithuania 235
- Switzerland 223