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Kosuke Takahashi
Kosuke Takahashi is Tokyo Correspondent for Janes Defence Weekly.
Kosuke Takahashi is former editor-in-chief of HuffPost Japan and a former staff writer at The Asahi Shimbun and Bloomberg.
Takahashi graduated from Keio University with a B.A. in economics in 1993. After working for The Asahi Shimbun and Dow Jones, he studied at Columbia University’s Journalism School and School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and graduated with Master of Science in Journalism and Master of International Affairs in 2004. Prior to joining the Asahi as a reporter in 1993, he worked for Baltimore Economic Development Corporation as an exchange trainee to a sister city program of Kawasaki City, and researched trade issues between the United States and Japan. He was awarded an Honorary citizenship of Baltimore for his work in 1988.

July 02, 2022
Japan Awards Contract to Shipbuilder JMU for 12 New Offshore Patrol Vessels
By Kosuke Takahashi

July 01, 2022
US-led RIMPAC, World’s Largest Maritime Exercise, Starts Without China or Taiwan
By Kosuke Takahashi

June 23, 2022
Japan’s MHI Launches 5th Mogami-Class Multirole Frigate for JMSDF
By Kosuke Takahashi

June 08, 2022
Japanese Former Defense Minister Morimoto Satoshi on a Taiwan Contingency
By Kosuke Takahashi

June 03, 2022
Japan Air Self-Defense Force Points to Vertigo in Fatal January Crash
By Kosuke Takahashi

May 25, 2022
China, Russia Fly 6 Bombers Near Japan Amid Quad Summit
By Kosuke Takahashi

May 18, 2022
Japan to Co-develop Future Fighter F-X With UK
By Kosuke Takahashi

April 29, 2022
Japan Commissions the Name-ship of New Mogami-Class Multirole Frigate
By Kosuke Takahashi

April 26, 2022
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Commissions First Yard Oil Tanker
By Kosuke Takahashi

April 22, 2022
Defense Panel Within Japan’s Ruling Party Urges Tokyo to Acquire ‘Counterattack Capability’
By Kosuke Takahashi

April 15, 2022
Japan Scrambled Fighter Jets to Intercept Foreign Aircraft Over 1,000 Times in FY2021
By Kosuke Takahashi
