Hiroyuki Akita

Foreign & Security Affairs Commentator
Nikkei Inc.

Hiroyuki Akita is a Foreign & Security Affairs Commentator of Nikkei Inc. Mr. Akita graduated from Jiyu Gakuen College in 1987 and received an M.A. in International Relations from Boston University in 1991. He entered Nikkei in 1987 and served in various positions, including Correspondent at the Beijing Bureau (1994-98), Staff Writer of the Political News Dept. (1998-2002), and Chief Correspondent at the Washington, D.C., Bureau (2002-06). He worked at Leader Writing Team of the Financial Times in London (17/10-12).

He was also an Associate of the Program on US-Japan Relations at Harvard University (2006-2007). Mr. Akita is the author of two books about US-China-Japan relations (Nikkei, 2008, 2016). He received the Vaughn-Uyeda Memorial International Journalistic Prize in March 2019 for his exceptional international reporting.