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
Profile of Japan's most controversial investor, Yoshiaki Murakami. Murakami helped pioneer activist investing in Japan, but his name was disgraced by an insider trading charge. Now, the revival of the Japan market and the money he's made from investing is forcing a reassessment of his acumen.
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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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IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE TO BUILD IN JAPAN'S SKI PARADISE
FEB 2024
A feature that challenged the popular notion of the investment momentum into Japan’s most popular ski resort of Niseko by highlighting the troubles that came from a mix of trouble getting financing, lack of wealthy Chinese buyers and competition for construction workers.
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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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