My coverage includes articles on Canada’s evolving history with its Indigenous people, the effects of climate change in the North, and the situation in the French-speaking province of Quebec.
I began covering Canada after serving as a correspondent in The Times’s bureau in Paris, and as a bureau chief for The Times in Johannesburg, Jakarta, Tokyo and Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Before that, I also worked as a metro reporter in New York City for The Times and as a business reporter for the Detroit Free Press.
I was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2015 for The Times’s coverage of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. In 2018, I was a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing for a piece on lonely deaths in Japan. In 2012, I was part of a team whose coverage of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and tsunami in Japan was named a Pulitzer finalist.
I was born in Japan, raised in Montreal and graduated from Princeton University. I am fluent in French and Japanese.
As a staff correspondent for The Times, I am committed to upholding the standards of integrity outlined in the publication’s Ethical Journalism Handbook. In my reporting, I strive to be fair and accurate, and represent all sides of a story. I do not participate in politics. When I am working, I always identify myself as a reporter for The Times.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau testified that past elections had been “free and fair,” but intelligence reports said meddling by China was “sophisticated” and “pervasive.”
By Norimitsu Onishi
Lawmakers testified at a public hearing on foreign interference that they had been caught in China’s cross hairs after criticizing it over human rights.
By Norimitsu Onishi
Han Dong, a member of Parliament who is accused of benefiting from the Chinese government’s help, testified at a public hearing on foreign interference.
By Norimitsu Onishi
Hundreds of newcomers from Africa have filled a shortage of workers in Rouyn-Noranda, creating a new community in a remote mining town.
By Norimitsu Onishi and Nasuna Stuart-Ulin
Ever since the Quebec Nordiques decamped in 1995, leaving a hole in the Francophone city, vote-seeking officials have vowed to bring them back. But younger voters may be starting to forget the team.
By Norimitsu Onishi
The country’s public colleges and universities increasingly rely on international students, especially from India, even as tensions between the two nations have flared.
By Norimitsu Onishi and Nasuna Stuart-Ulin
A Canadian rapporteur said there was “well-grounded suspicion” that Han Dong, a member of Parliament from Toronto, may have benefited from support from the Chinese Consulate.
By Norimitsu Onishi
An indictment in a plot against a Sikh separatist in the United States provides details in a killing that has strained relations between Canada and India.
By Norimitsu Onishi
After cautioning about environmental damage on TV for decades, David Suzuki, 87, one of Canada’s most famous scientists, felt a sense of defeat as he watched forests burn and temperatures soar this summer.
By Norimitsu Onishi
As Canada reckons with its colonial history, a push to “decolonize” museums has rocked its National Gallery and other museums.
By Norimitsu Onishi
