Hi, I'm Lisa
I’m an award-winning journalist currently with Bloomberg News in Tokyo, where I report on the financial sector in Asia, with a focus on Japan.
I have around a decade of experiencing reporting in Asia. My previous beats included China's financial sector and corporate Japan, with a dash of general assignment news.
Being a business journalist means versatility -- I am able to quickly jump on breaking news about any industry, or write and report out in-depth features connected to a particular news event. In my journalism adventures, I’ve interviewed CEOs and working grandmothers, broken news on corporate strategy changes, covered the Covid-19 from when it was an unknown virus and filed stories from two pandemic-era Olympics.
Please don't hesitate to connect to chat about any topic!
This page has a selection of my writing, and my most recent articles can be accessed here.
Japan's firebrand investor is back
OCTOBER 2025
A profile of controversial Japanese investor Yoshiaki Murakami. A pioneer of activist investing in Japan, Murakami’s reputation was tarnished by an insider trading conviction. But Japan’s market revival -- and the fortune he has built from it -- is prompting a reassessment of his legacy and investing acumen.
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IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE TO BUILD IN JAPAN'S SKI PARADISE
JUNE 2022
A feature that challenged the popular notion of the investment momentum into Japan’s most buzzy ski resort of Niseko by highlighting issues including difficulty with financing, lack of wealthy Chinese buyers and construction delays due to a worker shortage.
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Keeping Quiet About Politics Helped Uniqlo Become China’s Favorite Brand
APRIL 2022
I worked with reporters in China and the data visualization team to put together this story explaining how Japanese retailer Uniqlo became one of the most popular brands in China through a mix of luck, timing, and shrewd political positioning.
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The Era of Stagnant Salaries and Steady Prices Is Over in Japan
MARCH 2024
Formulated idea, organized reporting and wrote story on deadline after Japan scrapped the world's last negative rate policy to highlight how everyday people were impacted by the country's exit from delfation. Won a SOPA for Explanatory Reporting in 2025.
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Rich Chinese Worth $48 Billion Want to Leave — But Will Xi Let Them?
JUNE 2022
Feature story laying out an implication of the punishing Covid lockdown of Shanghai: China’s wealthy want to leave, but are realizing there's more obstacles than ever with moving money and getting travel documents.
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Daring Deal by French CEO Sets
Japan’s Takeda on Global Path
DECEMBER 2018
A profile of Takeda Pharmaceutical’s first foreign CEO Christoph Weber and his ambitions at the closing of the controversial deal to buy out Shire just as another foreign executive, Carlos Ghosn, was in the news.
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THE CULT JAPANESE RETAILER MAKING BILLIONS BREAKING ALL THE RULES
APRIL 2019
A Bloomberg Businessweek magazine feature. “For years, Don Quijote—an unclassifiable seller of everything from humidifiers to sex toys—has been a cult phenomenon in Japan, favored by the cash-strapped households of the so-called recession generation. Now it’s big business.”
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