Ryuichiro Takeshita

Ryuichiro Takeshita is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2014-15.  Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, Takeshita worked as a news reporter for The Asahi Shimbun, the national leading newspaper in Japan.  He covered economic policy and business news, and interviewed hundreds of people from government officials to entrepreneurs.  He also led the Billiomedia project in Japan during the 2012 general election, which was the first time for mainstream media in Japan to analyze public opinion using social media.