Kenji Kohno
Editor at Large, Anchor for NHK Special, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
Kenji Kohno is Editor-at-Large of NHK in Tokyo and anchors a series of NHK Special, its flagship documentary program.
He has represented NHK at various international conferences such as the annual Davos meeting and was recently assigned to expand relations with international media around the world.
Before being assigned to the current position in July 2023, he was Executive Director and Chief Commentator of NHK’s Commentators Bureau.
Previously, he was an anchor for NHK’s primetime news program, NewsWatch 9.
He started his career at NHK as a correspondent in 1986. For a total of twenty years, he had been posted overseas at such news bureaus as New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Tehran, Iran.
He interviewed many foreign leaders such as Iran’s President Khatami and he became the first Japanese journalist to interview US President Obama in 2009.
