Shozawa Shin’ichirō

Senior feature and editorial writer for Kyodo News. Born in 1966. Joined Kyodo News in 1989. Experienced the 1991 eruption of Mount Unzen while stationed at the Nagasaki bureau. From 1994 to 1996 while at the Hakodate bureau reported on the damage caused by the 1993 Hokkaidō Nansei Oki Earthquake on Okushiri Island and the 1996 eruption of Komagatake. Has subsequently covered natural disasters and post-disaster recovery nationwide as a Tokyo city news section reporter and Sendai bureau editor, among other posts. Member of the Volcanological Society of Japan, director of the Japan Society for Disaster Prevention and Revitalization, and researcher at Kwansei Gakuin University’s Institute for the Research of Disaster Area Reconstruction.