Morimoto Nobuyo

Senior writer in the culture and living department of Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun. Joined the daily in 1993, working in the city news and culture and living departments, as a page editor, and as Uto bureau chief before assuming her current post in 2016. Is the author of Hāfu-Firipīna (Half-Filipina), published under the nom de plum Morimoto Yō, written while still in college. Mother of two.