Participant Biographies

Martin Fackler

Martin Fackler

Journalist-in-Residence and Research Fellow, Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation
Session 1 - "When Growth Falters" , Plenary Session III - "Non-Traditional Insecurity"

Mr. Martin E. Fackler is Journalist-in-Residence and Research Fellow at the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, a Tokyo-based think tank. From 2009 to 2015, he covered Japan and the Korean Peninsula as Tokyo Bureau Chief for the New York Times. In 2012, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting for his and his colleagues’ investigative stories on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown that the prize committee said offered a “powerful exploration of serious mistakes concealed by authorities in Japan.” Martin is also the author (in Japanese) of “Taming the Watchdogs: Political Pressure and Media Self-Censorship in Abe’s Japan” (2016). Before joining the Times in 2005, he worked in Tokyo for the Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Associated Press, and Bloomberg News and in Beijing and Shanghai for AP. He has Masters Degrees in journalism from the University of Illinois and in East Asian history from the University of California, Berkeley.