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David Powers originally trained in Russian at Cambridge University, and joined the BBC in 1972. His long association with Japan began on Christmas night 1979, when he discovered an exchange arrangement between the BBC and its Japanese counterpart NHK. That led to four years in Tokyo assisting NHK with its overseas broadcasts. In 1987-92, he was back in Tokyo as BBC correspondent, and was a regular broadcaster on Business Breakfast and the Today programme, covering the rise and fall of the bubble economy. |
In 1991-2, he was President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. In 1994, he was appointed Editor, BBC Japanese TV, a post he held until leaving the BBC in 1999 to set up an independent London-based consultancy, Japan Interface www.japan-interface.co.uk. In 2001, he gained an MBA (with distinction) from Bradford University School of Management. David Powers reads and speaks Japanese fluently, and has travelled the length and breadth of the country. |
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