Yuri Kageyama is a reporter for The Associated Press in the Tokyo bureau, covering business, economic and technology news. Her job spans a wide field, including global companies such as Sony and Toyota, changes in the Japanese economy, robotics and other new technology, consumer trends and many other stories.

Kageyama joined AP in 1991, and has also worked in the Detroit bureau. Before that, she worked for The Japan Times in Tokyo, and did free-lance writing for various newspapers and literary magazines in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She is a magna cum laude graduate of Cornell University and holds an M.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Organization background The Associated Press is the backbone of the world's information system serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television and online customers with coverage in all media and news in all formats. It is the largest and oldest news organization in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video.

AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP.

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