{"id":5268,"date":"2026-05-15T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.k-clients.com\/reporters\/sei-motoda\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T22:06:35","slug":"sei-motoda","status":"publish","type":"reporters","link":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/reporters\/sei-motoda\/","title":{"rendered":"Sei Motoda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in Himeji, Japan in 1953. I joined Nippon Television(NTV) in Tokyo in 1978 and started working as a news reporter. First I covered domestic news such as politics. Then in 1989 world history changed: The Berlin Wall collapsed, and Bush and Gorbachev met in Malta to declare the end of the Cold War. I went to Malta as a member of the news team and I was thrilled by the dramatic change of the history.<\/p>\n<p>I asked my boss to send me to Europe and I was assigned the London bureau chief in 1994. At that time the Balkan peninsula was in turmoil. I visited Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo to cover the conflicts. I was surprised to see that hot wars broke out even in twentieth century Europe. I made the Kosovo report in the summer of 1998 and not many Japanese knew anything about Kosovo until then.<\/p>\n<p>The Kosovo report was my last report from Europe as I was called back to Tokyo in August. I became the foreign news editor in 2001. I left NTV in 2014 and taught journalism at Hakuoh University in Tochigi, Japan until March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was born in Himeji, Japan in 1953. I joined Nippon Television(NTV) in Tokyo in 1978 and started working as a news reporter. First I covered domestic news such as politics. Then in 1989 world history changed: The Berlin Wall collapsed, and Bush and Gorbachev met in Malta to declare the end of the Cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5267,"template":"","reporter_type":[21,19],"reporter_location":[24],"class_list":["post-5268","reporters","type-reporters","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","reporter_type-contributor","reporter_type-reporter","reporter_location-international"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporters\/5268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reporters"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporters\/5268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporters\/5268\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"reporter_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter_type?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"reporter_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportinghouse.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter_location?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}