Norimitsu Onishi

Norimitsu Onishi
Born
Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
OccupationJournalist
Notable credit(s)The New York Times, The Detroit Free Press

Norimitsu Onishi (大西 哲光, Ōnishi Norimitsu) is a Japanese Canadian journalist. He is a Paris correspondent for the New York Times, after holding the position as Bureau Chief in Johannesburg, Jakarta, Tokyo and Abidjan.[1]

He was a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.[2] Team members named by The Times were Pam Belluck, Helene Cooper, Sheri Fink, Adam Nossiter, Onishi, Kevin Sack, and Ben C. Solomon.[3]

In November 2018, Onishi wrote an article about the lonely deaths of the elderly in Japan, titled "A Generation in Japan Faces a Lonely Death" for which he was nominated as a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing finalist.[4] Readers thanked Norimitsu for his "profoundly moving piece" about two people who live alone in a danchi, a sprawling government apartment complex, outside Tokyo.[5]

  1. ^ "Norimitsu Onishi - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
  2. ^ "2015 Pulitzer Prizes: Journalism". www.pulitzer.org.
  3. ^ Times, The New York (April 20, 2015). "2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music (Published 2015)" – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ "Finalist: Norimitsu Onishi of The New York Times". www.pulitzer.org.
  5. ^ Takenaga, Lara (December 2, 2017). "'It Reads Like Poetry': Readers Respond to a Story of Loneliness and Death in Japan (Published 2017)" – via NYTimes.com.