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Yoichi Funabashi is named editor-in-chief of Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo

Monday, September 03, 2007

Yoichi Funabashi, Class of 1976, has been named editor-in-chief of Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo. He is the third editor-in-chief in the newspaper's 130-year history. Asahi Shimbun has a circulation of 12 million and is Japan's largest paper.

Funabashi was a correspondent for the paper in Beijing and then in Washington, and later served as American General Bureau Chief. He has been a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics and a Distinguished Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution.

Class of 1976

First row (from left): Janos Horvat, Robert Gillette, Percy Qoboza, James C. Thomson Jr. (Curator), Lester Sloan, Robert Fiess.

Second row: Arnold Markowits, Peter Behr, Ronald Javers, Cornelia Carrier, Foster Davis, Maggie Scarf, Jim Hendereson, Gunter Haaf.

Third row: Dale Burk, Ray White, James Rubin, Eugene Carlson, David McNeely, Yoichi Funabashi.