Susumu Shimoyama
Susumu Shimoyama is a nonfiction writer.
He was an International Reporting Fellow at Columbia Journalism School in the early 1990s, where he authored the paper, “The Demise of Investigative Journalism in American Newspapers,” which was published as a book in Japan. He also authored “Media Survival: How Reuters, Bloomberg and Nikkei Have Competed and Developed Global Financial Market” in 2002 and “Media in 2050: Three way battle of Yomiuri Nikkei and Yahoo Japan”, which won Ozaki gakudo prize, best nonfiction book of 2019. His fourth book “Conquering Alzheimer Disease” chronicles research history of Alzheimer disease in last four decades up until application of aducanumab for approval to FDA. His fifth book “Journalists in 2050” was just published in September of 2021.
He runs a weekly column for the Sunday Mainichi. He teaches as adjunct in Journalism School of Sophia University.
He was guest professor in policy management at Keio University between 2018 to 2020. He also served as the executive editor of the Japanese publishing company Bungei Shunju from 2006 to 2019.