Takaaki Yorimitsu

Takaaki Yorimitsu is a Japanese journalist who served as the head of the Investigative Reporting Section at The Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's largest national daily newspapers. He was recruited from a smaller regional newspaper in 2008 for his investigative prowess and led a team that grew to roughly 30 reporters after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, winning Japan's top journalism award two years in a row for exposing official coverups and shoddy decontamination work. He is best known for directing the investigative series "The Promethean Trap," which challenged official narratives surrounding the Fukushima nuclear accident. After the newspaper retracted a controversial Fukushima article, he was reassigned to a Saturday supplement where he writes entertainment features.