Tetsuya Chikushi

Tetsuya Chikushi (Japanese: 筑紫 哲也, Chikushi Tetsuya, 23 June 1935 – 7 November 2008) was a Japanese journalist, TV presenter and news anchor.

Tetsuya Chikushi
筑紫 哲也
Born(1935-06-23)June 23, 1935
Ōita Prefecture, Japan
DiedNovember 7, 2008(2008-11-07) (aged 73)
Tokyo, Japan
OccupationJournalist, news anchor

Career

Chikushi was born in Hita, Ōita on 23 June 1935. He graduated from Waseda University's school of political science and economics, and joined the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in 1959 as a reporter.[1]

He worked for the Asahi Shimbun's political news department, Okinawa bureau, and Washington bureau, before being appointed as managing editor of the Asahi Journal magazine.[1]

He later resigned from the Asahi Shimbun to become the anchorman of TBS's News 23 late-night news programme in October 1989.

He left TBS's News 23 in May 2007 after announcing on air that he was suffering from cancer.[1]

He died of lung cancer on 7 November 2008 at a hospital in Tokyo, aged 73.[1] He was a guest professor of Waseda University[2] and Ritsumeikan University.[3]

See also

References
  1. The Mainichi Daily News: "Celebrity journalist Tetsuya Chikushi loses battle with lung cancer" (7 November 2008). Retrieved on 7 November 2008.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20110901233241/http://waseda-links.com/update/news/1739.htm. Archived from the original on September 1, 2011. Retrieved February 9, 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/mng/gl/koho/headline/info/2006/06/kyakuin.pdf


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