Hiroshi Tasogawa (Tokyo, Japan) was born in Tokyo in 1934, graduated from Waseda University in 1958, and became a reporter for NHK, Japan's public broadcasting corporation. Later, he was a reporter for the Associated Press and a professor of media reporting at Tokai University. He is now an author and freelance journalist. His book Akira Kurosawa vs. Hollywood (Bungei Shunju Ltd. 2006) was given four prestigious literary awards in Japan: the Osaragi Jiro Award, the Kodansha Nonfiction Award, the Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award, and the Geijutsu Sensho Award. His other books include A Newscaster, about Edward R. Murrow, a founder of American broadcast journalism.