Founder&CEO, Editor-in-Chief, Toshihiko Ogata
Born in 1969. Graduated from Keio University and joined the Asahi Shimbun in 1993. After being a visiting fellow at Stanford University, he became a silicon valley correspondent in San Jose in 2002, where he covered US tech companies such as Microsoft and Apple. He was a London correspondent in 2008, then he became a Washington correspondent from 2009 to 2012, where he covered the White House, U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, IMF and the World Bank. He had one-on-one interviews with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, World Bank President Robert Zoellick and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. In 2012, he became the Asahi’s chief economic correspondent. He also served as a deputy business editor, deputy international news editor as well as deputy Op-Ed editor. From 2018 to 2021, he was assigned to be the San Francisco Bureau Chief, where he covered Big Tech companies. He asked direct questions to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon founder and Chairman Jeff Bezos, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. During his time at Asahi Shimbun, he wrote about 2,700 byline articles, the most ever for a business reporter at Asahi. He left Asahi Shimbun at the end of June 2022, and started the Arc Times YouTube channel in July. He is the author of “White House in Turbulence” (2017, Iwanami Shoten)
Twitter : @ToshihikoOgata
Yukinobu Kurata, Deputy Editor
Born in 1968. Graduated from Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics. After working as a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, Weekly Diamond, and as an editor for the Harvard Business Review, he became a freelance translator. Since 2008, he has been a house-husband raising two children in Hamburg, Paris, Bangkok and Tokyo. He has translated 10 books on finance and corporate management. His translations include “Merkel, the World’s Greatest Chancellor” (Kathi Merton, Bungeishunju-sha), “2050: The Great Global Population Decline” (Daryl Bricker, John Ibbitson, Bungeishunju-sha), “Alliance” (Reid Hoffman and others, Diamond Inc.) He also translates articles, mainly for the DIAMOND Harvard Business Review.
COO & CFO Kaoruko Ogata
She graduated from Keio University with B.A. and M.A in Political Science. Joined Daiwa Institute of Research in 1996, she had been in public relations department at Daiwa from 1998 to 2000. She was in public relations at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in Japan from 2000-2002. She also worked as a researcher at Pasona Fortune from 2016-2018.
