Biography
Tomoko Hosaka Mullaney is a Vice President at The Asia Group, a firm that provides strategic and business advisory services to the world’s leading companies and organizations seeking to excel across Asia. With her deep professional and personal knowledge of Japan, she supports clients across a variety of sectors, providing them with strategic advice and analysis of the country’s complex political, economic, and market landscape.
Prior to joining The Asia Group, Tomoko was an award-winning business journalist and leader in media and technology with a decade of experience in Asia. She served as deputy economics editor at The Associated Press (AP) in Washington, D.C., where she helped oversee coverage areas including trade, monetary policy, and the U.S. labor market. She rejoined the AP after indulging her entrepreneurial itch at two Silicon Valley startups. She was chief operating officer at Plympton, a San Francisco-based digital publishing startup. She was also head of news and politics at Ustream, the leading livestreaming platform at the time.
During her previous stint with the AP, she worked as a business and technology reporter based in Tokyo, where she was a key member of the team that covered the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. She served as the AP’s lead economic writer in Japan during the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. She chronicled numerous Japanese political administrations, companies, and business trends. She also traveled extensively throughout Japan and the Indo-Pacific region on assignment. Before the AP, she worked as an editor at Dow Jones Newswires in Tokyo, and has written for The Oregonian, The Washington Post, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
She holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Tokyo’s Waseda University. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism.
Tomoko is a long-time member of the Asian American Journalists Association and serves as co-director of its Media Institute, which is an intensive media training program for diverse leaders.
Articles, Publications, and Appearances
Moderator for “U.S.-Japan Space Partnership: Fostering Collaboration on Earth and Beyond”
First Person: Reporter Describes Massive Quake (The Associated Press)
We Witness: A Panel on Digital Video, Social Media and Political Protest
AP Interview: Shiseido Exec Aims to Elevate Women
Japanese Entrepreneurs Aim for Silicon Valley