Aya Igarashi / Washington
Tokyo story
As part of our series on the foreign media coverage of the US presidential election, Aya Igarashi of ‘The Yomiuri Shimbun’ explains why Japan is worried about having a Democrat in the White House.
Aya Igarashi has worked for The Yomiuri Shimbun for 18 years, having spent 10 of those covering Japanese politics for the paper. Three years ago, she moved to Washington DC, to take up her current post as a political correspondent. Based in the National Press Building she has been following the presidential candidates around the country since they began their campaigns, spending New Year’s Eve in Des Moines, Iowa, at a party with Hillary and Bill Clinton. She also wrote a column that focused entirely on Senator Clinton’s campaign.
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