• Hayano Tōru

    Professor, J.F. Oberlin University in Machida, Tokyo. Born in 1945 in Kanagawa. Graduated from the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law in 1968. Joined Asahi Shimbun, where he was deputy editor of the Political News Section, senior staff writer, and columnist. Assumed his present position in 2010. Author of Seiken rapusodi: Abe, Fukuda, Asō kara Hatoyama e (Political Rhapsody: From Abe, Fukuda, and Asō to Hatoyama); Tanaka Kakuei: Sengo Nihon no kanashiki jigazō (Tanaka Kakuei: The Unadorned Self-Portrait of Postwar Japan); and other works.

    1
    May 14, 2014