Tsuneo Sasai

tsuneo sasai

Tsuneo Sasai

  • Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow, 2015-16

Biography

Tsuneo Sasai is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  He has worked as a news reporter for The Asahi Shimbun, the national leading newspaper in Japan, for ten years, focused mainly on covering economic policy and business news.  His specialty is the financial sector, such as financial institutions, the Financial Services Agency, and the Bank of Japan.   Sasai also conducted investigative reporting with a record of success in breaking stories, in the fields of corporate management and financial scandal.  His research at Stanford will examine how financial systems in Silicon Valley play a role in developing startups.