is a Japanese journalist. He contributes to IHS Jane's Defence, NK News and Toyo Keizai Online among other media by writing in both English and Japanese. He is also currently a regular TV commentator of Tokyo MX's Morning Cross program. He worked as the senior online news editor at Thomson Reuters in Tokyo from April 2016 to January 2017, where he focuses on expanding its online news coverage across multiple digital channels. He was appointed editor-in-chief of

The Huffington Post ''HuffPost'' (formerly ''The Huffington Post'' until 2017 and sometimes abbreviated ''HuffPo'') is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and ...

Japan in September 2014 where he was in charge of overseeing all of the day-to-day editorial content and operations of the Huffington Post Japan. Previously, he has worked as Tokyo correspondent for IHS

Jane's Defence Weekly ''Jane's Defence Weekly'' (abbreviated as ''JDW'') is a weekly magazine reporting on military and corporate affairs, edited by Peter Felstead. It is one of a number of military-related publications named after John F. T. Jane, an Englishman who ...

from January 2009 to early September 2014, specializing in Japan's defense and politics as well as East Asian affairs such as on Sino-Japanese relations and Korean Peninsula issues. He also has worked for the

Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition a ...

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, Dow Jones Japan and

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Japan as staff writer/editor, and

Nikkei CNBC Nikkei CNBC (日経CNBC) is a business and financial news television channel broadcast in Japan. It is owned primarily by CNBC Asia and Japanese media group Nikkei, Inc. and its subsidiary, TV Tokyo Holdings Corporation. The channel is a result ...

Japan as regular TV commentator. He used the pen name at Bloomberg. His work has appeared in the

International Herald Tribune The ''International Herald Tribune'' (''IHT'') was a daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, France for international English-speaking readers. It had the aim of becoming "the world's first global newspaper" and could fairly be said ...

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers '' The Observer'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the ...

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, Institutional Investor magazine,

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NK News NK News is an American subscription-based news website that provides stories and analysis about North Korea. Established in 2011, it is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea with reporters in Washington, D.C. and London. Reporting is based on inf ...

and Japan’s Tokyo Keizai magazine, among other publications. His comments on international affairs have appeared in worldwide articles such as those of the Christian Science Monitor, the Australian, Italy’s daily newspaper Il Foglio, the Taipei Times, the Ukrainian Week, China's Xinhua News Agency and South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo."オバマ政府、日本通を人選する（２）"
''The JoongAng Ilbo'', December 9, 2008. The news media Takahashi has worked for: * Senior Online News Editor of Thomson Reuters, April 1, 2016– January 2017 * Editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Japan, September 8, 2014– March 14, 2016 * Tokyo Correspondent for IHS Jane's Defence Weekly, January 2009– September 7, 2014 * Editor at Wall Street Journal Japan, Oct 2012 - Dec 2013 * Senior Writer at Asia Times Online, May 2004– Sept 2012 * TV Commentator at

Japan, March 2009– March 2012 (under his pen name Kosuke Goto) * Freelancer for Institutional Investor Magazine, January 2009–December 2010 * Staff Writer at

, July 2005 - Sept 2008 (under his pen name Kosuke Goto) * Staff Writer at RIM Intelligence Co, Feb 2004 - May 2005 * Intern at the Tokyo bureau of

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, May- July, 2002 * Copy Editor at Dow Jones Japan, 2000–2001 * Staff Writer at The

, 1993–1999 Takahashi graduated from

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowment ...

with a B.A. in economics in 1993. After working for The Asahi Shimbun and Dow Jones, he studied at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

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and

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(SIPA), and graduated with Master of Science in Journalism in 2003 and Master of International Affairs in 2004. Prior to joining the Asahi as a reporter in 1993, he worked for

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as an exchange trainee to a sister city program of Kawasaki City, and researched trade issues between the United States and Japan. He was awarded an

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for his work in 1988.

References

External links

Personal blog in EnglishPersonal blog in JapaneseIntroducing Kosuke TAKAHASHI by Japan Focus
{{DEFAULTSORT:Takahashi, Kosuke 1968 births Living people Japanese journalists Japanese broadcast news analysts The Asahi Shimbun people School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Keio University alumni