Itabashi Kazuhiro

Economic journalist for Jiji Press. Covered domestic politics and worked in the Shizuoka Prefecture bureau before arriving on his current beat in 2008. Writing on the finance industry and fiscal and trade policy, he has worked as a correspondent in New York and from May 2023 to June 2025 in Washington DC, where he reported on US President Donald Trump’s tariff implementation. He now focuses on the automobile industry.