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name: Tobias Harris
about: Tobias Harris is a Japanese politics analyst at Teneo Intelligence, the political risk arm of the strategic consultancy Teneo. His first book - THE ICONOCLAST: SHINZŌ ABE AND THE NEW JAPAN - will be published in 2020.Prior to joining Teneo, Mr. Harris was an independent analyst of Japanese politics and creator of the blog Observing Japan. In this capacity, he provided running commentary on the Japanese political situation and its effect on foreign and economic policy. He has written articles on Japanese politics for publications including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and the Far Eastern Economic Review and provided on-air analysis for CNBC, Bloomberg, NHK, and BBC. From 2014-2020, he was Economy, Trade, and Tobias Harris is a Japanese politics analyst at Teneo Intelligence, the political risk arm of the strategic consultancy Teneo. His first book - THE ICONOCLAST: SHINZŌ ABE AND THE NEW JAPAN - will be published in 2020.Prior to joining Teneo, Mr. Harris was an independent analyst of Japanese politics and creator of the blog Observing Japan. In this capacity, he provided running commentary on the Japanese political situation and its effect on foreign and economic policy. He has written articles on Japanese politics for publications including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and the Far Eastern Economic Review and provided on-air analysis for CNBC, Bloomberg, NHK, and BBC. From 2014-2020, he was Economy, Trade, and Business Fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA.Before working as an analyst, in 2006-2007 Mr. Harris worked on the staff of Keiichiro Asao, at that time a member of the upper house of the Japanese Diet and shadow foreign minister for the Democratic Party of Japan, for whom Mr. Harris conducted research on foreign policy and Japan’s relations with the United States.Mr. Harris holds an M.Phil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge. He received his bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University. He conducted graduate research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, from 2011-2012, he was a Fulbright scholar at the Institute for Social Science at the University of Tokyo. ...more