Yasuomi Sawa

Yasuomi Sawa is an investigative journalist and an organizer for empowerment among journalists in Japan. He serves as Executive Director and co-founder of J-Forum, Japan’s first nationwide platform that fosters journalist-to-journalist learning and solidarity, and is also a professor of journalism at Waseda University. Before moving into academia, Sawa spent 30 years at Kyodo News, Japan’s largest news agency, where he worked on the Panama Papers and other ICIJ investigations. His other reporting has also forced public attention to the government’s neglect of more than 10,000 immigrant children’s right to schooling, uncovered the silent disposal of landmark constitutional case records by the courts, and exposed the sexual exploitation of teenage girls in Tokyo. He is the author of three books on journalism.