Fukiko aoki biography of barack

Fukiko Aoki is a journalist and writer based in New York. She has contributed numerous articles to major newspapers and magazines in Japan, and published 17 non-fiction works, reportages and essay collections.

1984 she moved to the US to head the New York bureau of Newsweek Japan. She worked for three years as an Bureau Chief and editor.

Her first book, Goodbye with a Leica: The Day Photographer Kyoichi Sawada Was Shot (Bungeishunju Publishing, 1981; new edition, Chikuma Bunko, 2013) was about the Pulitzer Price Japanese photographer who covered the Vietnam War, and was killed on the front lines in Cambodia.

After publishing her second work, Searching for Amelia: The Revived Legend of a Female Aviator, Amelia Earhart (Bungeishunju, 1983; new edition, Bunshun Bunko, 1995), she wrote essays about everyday life in New York City for the monthly magazine Shokun in Japan. Among her reports serialized in the Weekly Bunshun column she wrote about the attack on Ja