Wu Nan (’08) interviews Yomiuri Shimbun senior researcher and journalism school visiting lecturer Ryoichi Hamamoto for China Digital Times’ ChinaCast. Hamamoto is a former Beijing bureau chief for Yomiuri, the world’s largest-circulation daily newspaper, and is currently co-teaching the Asia Colloqium seminar on Japan with Professor Carolyn Wakeman:

During Hamamoto’s two assignments in China, he experienced two important eras, the Hu Yaobang Era and the Jiang Zemin Era. He collected some bullet shells from Tiananmen Square in 1989. He reported on the conflicted anti- Japan issues in China. His interview with a leader of an anti- Japan website made him feel it is difficult for Chinese young people to understand modern Japan.

Listen to the podcast here. And see Hamamoto’s full bio on China Digital Times here.