Five U.S.-based journalists were selected for 12-day reporting trips to Japan, conducted throughout the summer and fall of 2014, in the second year of ICFJ's "Illuminating Today's Japan for American Audiences" program. The participating journalists worked with an experienced Japanese interpreter and fixer, and dug into the economic, social, environmental and energy-policy challenges facing the country.
Although the world is interconnected as never before, international news coverage is likely at an all-time low.