Naoko Abe

Naoko Abe is a Japanese journalist and nonfiction writer. She was the first female political writer to cover the Japanese prime minister’s office, the foreign ministry, and the defense ministry at Mainichi Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest newspapers. Since moving to London with her British husband and their two sons in 2001,she has worked as a freelance writer and has published five books in Japanese. Her biography of Collingwood Ingram in Japanese won the prestigious Nihon Essayist Club Award in 2016 and she has now rewritten the book with new material for English-language readers.