Anna Fifield

Asia Society Japan Center will host its first breakfast meeting with guest speaker Anna Fifield, Tokyo Bureau Chief for Washington Post covering Japan, South Korea, and North Korea.

Ms. Fifield will brief Asia Society Japan Center founders and additional guests on the outcomes of the recent Moon-Kim meeting, the future of North Korea and its relations with South Korea, Japan, China, and the United States.

It will be open discussions with a Q&A session closer to the end of the breakfast.

More information on our Guest Speaker:

Anna Fifield

Tokyo bureau chief covering North Korea, South Korea and Japan,

The Washington Post

Anna Fifield is the Tokyo bureau chief for The Washington Post, focusing on Japan and the Koreas but periodically reporting from other parts of the region. She concentrates on North Korea, trying to shed light on the lives of ordinary people there and also on how the regime manages to stay in power.

She started as a journalist in her home country of New Zealand, then worked for the Financial Times for 13 years. During her time there, she reported from almost 20 countries, from Iran and Libya to North Korea and Australia. During the 2013-2014 academic year, she was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard, studying how change happens in closed societies.

Honors & Awards:

Finalist, Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize, 2017

Nieman Journalism Fellow, Harvard University, 2013-2014

Education:

University of Canterbury, New Zealand, postgraduate diploma in journalism; Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, BA