Sonoko Watanabe

Editor-in-Chief
Nikkei Asian Review, Nikkei Inc.

Sonoko Watanabe is the Editor-in-Chief of Nikkei Asian Review and a Deputy Managing Editor of Nikkei Editorial Bureau.
As the Editor-in-Chief of Nikkei Asian Review, Watanabe oversees Nikkei’s English news service which is available both by online and weekly print magazine.

Watanabe joined Nikkei in 1987 as a reporter at Business News Department. As a business news reporter, she covered various industries including automobile, electronics and telecom. Between 1994 and 1997 she worked as a Singapore correspondent covering business in ASEAN, and between 2006 and 2009 she was Nikkei's Shanghai Bureau Chief.
As an editor, she worked at business news department and international news department.
Before assumed current positon in April this year, she was the editor of economic commentary.

Watanabe graduated from Waseda University with BA in Economics in 1987.