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Nobuhisa Iida, Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Headquarters for Asia, Nikkei

Nobuhisa Iida

Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Headquarters for Asia, Nikkei

Nobuhisa Iida is Editor-in-Chief of Nikkei’s Editorial Headquarters for Asia. He currently works in Bangkok, Thailand to oversee Nikkei’s news coverage throughout Asia. He has full responsibility to carry stories from Asia on both the Japanese language Nikkei and the English language Nikkei Asian Review.
Mr. Iida joined Nikkei in 1987 as a staff writer at the City News Department in Osaka, Japan. After being stationed in Tokyo, he mainly covered retail and consumer business including department stores, supermarket chains and convenience stores.
Between 1999 and 2002 he worked as Jakarta bureau chief in Indonesia, covering various affairs such as political turmoil and conflicts over the independence of East Timor. As a desk editor, he worked at the Economic News Department and the Business News Department in Tokyo. He had also served as Deputy Managing Editor of the Editorial Bureau in Tokyo.
Before taking on the current positon in April this year, he was Editor-in-Chief of Nikkei Business, a weekly business magazine published by Nikkei’s business publication arm, Nikkei BP.
Mr. Iida graduated from Chuo University with a bachelor degree in law.

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