Bernard Krisher

Bernard Krisher was born in Frankfurt and left Germany in 1937 at the age of six via Paris and Lisbon eventually settling in New York in January 1941 with his parents. At age 12, Krisher published his own magazine and edited his high school and Queens College newspapers. Later he worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York WorldTelegram amp Sun. After graduating from Queens College Krisher was drafted into the Army during the Korean War but due to his German language skills was stationed in Heidelberg at the US Armys press and information division. In 1958 he visited Japan for the first time. From 1959 to 1960 Krisher spent a year doing Japanese area and language studies at Columbia University as a Ford Foundation Advanced International Reporting Fellow. He joined Newsweek s Tokyo bureau first as a stringer and eventually became bureau chief until 1980. In 1975 he was the first and only journalist ever do a to a oneonone interview with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito . He is

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