Hiroko Tabuchi is an American climate journalist who has reported from Japan and the United States, and is known for her coverage of the

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster The was a nuclear accident in 2011 at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan. The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which occurred on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 and ...

in 2011 and its aftermath. She has worked for

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since 2008, and previously written for

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

and the Tokyo bureau of the

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. She was the member of a team of reporters that won a

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in 2013 and a team that was finalist in 2011.

Early life

Tabuchi is originally from Kobe, Japan. She received her undergraduate degree from the

London School of Economics and Political Science , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

Career

Though based in New York, Tabuchi spent a significant portion of her career working in Tokyo, Japan. She has previously written for

and the Tokyo bureau of the

. She has worked for ''

'' from 2008 to 2017 as a business reporter. Since 2017, she has worked as a Climate and Environment Reporter for the ''NYT''. She has also contributed to

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on several occasions on topics ranging from nuclear meltdown to significant mechanical failures from major car brands. She has also contributed to ''

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'', ''

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'', and several other international publications.

Awards and honors

According to the New York Times, Tabuchi was "part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting" in 2013, and "part of a team whose coverage of the tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting" in 2011. In 2018, she was one of the team of ''New York Times'' journalists who won the John B Oakes Award for her contribution to reporting on the

Environmental Protection Agency A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...

under the

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administration. She was also the winner of the National Press Foundation Innovative Storyteller Award in 2020, in part for having "led the coverage of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan" for the New York Times. In 2021, she was part of a team that won the SABEW award for reporting on the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tabuchi, Hiroko Created via preloaddraft American women journalists of Asian descent Year of birth missing (living people) The Wall Street Journal people The New York Times people Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners Living people Alumni of the London School of Economics People from Kobe Japanese emigrants to the United States 21st-century American women