Norimitsu Onishi is a Paris correspondent for the New York Times, after holding the position as Bureau Chief in Johannesburg, Jakarta, Tokyo and Abidjan.
12 Facts About Norimitsu Onishi
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Norimitsu Onishi was a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.
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In November 2018, Onishi wrote an article about the lonely deaths of the elderly in Japan, titled "A Generation in Japan Faces a Lonely Death" for which he was nominated as a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing finalist.
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Norimitsu Onishi attended Princeton University and served as the chief editor of the student newspaper.
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Norimitsu Onishi was a reporter for The Detroit Free Press from 1992 until 1993.
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Norimitsu Onishi went on to become the Queens bureau chief from March 1995 to September 1997 and later the West Africa bureau chief from 1998 to 2002.
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Norimitsu Onishi became the Tokyo bureau chief for the Times in August 2003.
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In September and October 2014, Norimitsu Onishi reported on the ebola virus epidemic in West Africa from Liberia.
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Norimitsu Onishi received the 2020 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for "Crash in Ethiopia".
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Norimitsu Onishi has accused various Japanese politicians of historical revisionism, particularly on the topics of the Nanjing Massacre and comfort women.
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Conservatives in Japan such as Kohyu Nishimura and Yoshihisa Komori accuse Norimitsu Onishi of holding a leftist perspective and having a strong "anti-Japan" bias, which, they suggest, helps foster vilification of Japan abroad.
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Some Japanese conservatives even made unproven claims that Norimitsu Onishi is a naturalized Japanese citizen of Korean descent.