Watanabe Yūko

Senior staff writer for the Government News Desk at Jiji Press. Born in Tokyo in 1972. After graduating from Meiji University, joined Jiji in 1995, where she worked on the politics beat and at the Kōfu branch and Shizuoka prefectural bureau. as a politics reporter, covered several ministries in the national government and Tokyo metropolitan government issues. Joined the domestic politics desk in 2016 and assumed her current post in 2020.