Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer 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.
On the very day that Russian leader Vladimir Putin attended the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing's National Stadium, known as the "Bird's Nest," Russian troops crossed the border to launch a military operation.