Hiroko Tabuchi is a climate journalist who has reported from Japan and the United States, and is known for her coverage of the

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan, which began on 11 March 2011. The cause of the accident was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which r ...

in 2011 and its aftermath. She has worked for

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since 2008, and previously written for

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and the Tokyo bureau of the

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. She was the member of a team of reporters that won a

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in 2013 and a team that was finalist in 2011.

Early life

Tabuchi is originally from Kobe, Japan. She received her undergraduate degree from the

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Career

Though based in New York, Tabuchi spent a significant portion of her career working in Tokyo, Japan. She has previously written for

and the Tokyo bureau of the

. She has worked for ''

'' from 2008 to 2017 as a business reporter. Since 2017, she has worked as a Climate and Environment Reporter for the ''NYT''. She has also contributed to

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on several occasions on topics ranging from nuclear meltdown to significant mechanical failures from major car brands. She has also contributed to '' The World'', ''

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'', and several other international publications.

Awards and honors

According to the New York Times, Tabuchi was "part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting" in 2013, and "part of a team whose coverage of the tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting" in 2011. In 2018, she was one of the team of ''New York Times'' journalists who won the John B Oakes Award for her contribution to reporting on the Environmental Protection Agency under the

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administration. She was also the winner of the National Press Foundation Innovative Storyteller Award in 2020, in part for having "led the coverage of the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan" for the New York Times. In 2021, she was part of a team that won the SABEW award for reporting on the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

References

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