Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.
The effort to normalize China-Japan diplomatic relations half a century ago was a highly risky move for the players involved, and for some it was not just their political careers but their very lives that were on the line.
