Bernard Krisher

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Bernard Krisher (born August 9, 1931 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 5, 2019 in Tokyo ) was a Tokyo- based American journalist , publicist , philanthropist and editor of The Cambodia Daily .

Life

Bernard Krisher first grew up in Leipzig as the only son of Jewish parents. In 1937 the family fled to Paris via Holland and to Portugal in 1939. In January 1941 the 9-year-old boy came to New York and began his journalistic career at the age of 12 with a hectographed school newspaper. Later he worked for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York World-Telegram & Sun . After completing his studies at Queens College in 1953, he was drafted into the US Army and, because of his knowledge of German, was stationed in Heidelberg , where he worked in the US Army's press and information department. During his first visit to Japan in 1958, he met his future wife Akiko. In 1959/60 he studied Japanese studies and Japanese for a year at Columbia University as an Advanced International Reporting Fellow of the Ford Foundation . He then went to Japan as a freelance journalist for Newsweek . In 1964 he reported on the Olympic Games for the newspaper and was the head of its Far East office in Tokyo from 1968 to 1980. He was then a short-term correspondent for Fortune Magazine . In 1980 he became a consultant for Shinchosha Publishing , one of the major Japanese magazine and book publishers, where he founded the illustrated weekly magazine Focus , which was published by Shinchosha and had a peak circulation of up to 2 million copies a week.

Bernard Krisher was the first and only journalist to interview the Japanese Emperor Hirohito in a dialogue. The interview was published in Newsweek and made Krisher popular in Japan overnight.

philanthropy

After retiring from journalism, Bernard Krisher founded the Japan Relief for Cambodia and American Assistance for Cambodia Foundation (now renamed World Assistance for Cambodia ). In 1993 he started the newspaper The Cambodia Daily . In 2008, Krisher founded The Burma Daily . In the "Cambodia Schools" project, his foundation focuses primarily on promoting the training and education of young Cambodians by building schools in rural areas. So far, more than 550 such schools have been built (as of 2014).

Works

  • with Norodom Sihanouk: Sihanouk Reminisces. World Leaders I Have Known. Editions Duang Kamol, Bangkok 1990, ISBN 974-210-524-3 .
  • Japan as We Lived It: Can East and West Ever Meet? Yohan Publications, Tokyo 1989.
  • with Osamu Senna: Intabyū: Tennō kara Fuwa Tetsuzō made (イ ン タ ビ ュ 一: 天皇 か ら 不 破 哲 三 ま で /) Saimaru Shuppankai (サ イ マ ル 出版 会), Tokyo 1976.
  • with Eiichi Aoki: Harvard Conversation - Hābādo no mita Nippon: Nihon wa nyūrīdā ni nareru ka? (ハ ー バ ー ド の み た ニ ッ ポ ン: 日本 は ニ ュ ー リ ー ダ ー に な れ る か?), Gurobyūsha (グ ロ ビ ュ ー 社), Tokyo 1979.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Cambodia Daily: Bernard Krisher, Journalist and Philanthropist, Dies at 87 March 18, 2019, accessed March 18, 2019 (American English).
  2. ↑ Anthony Late in: Bernard Krisher: A Can-Do Yank in Cambodia ( Memento of 26 March 2014 Internet Archive ). In: khmerconnection.com. October 3, 2005, accessed March 28, 2014.
  3. ↑ Christoph Seidler: Weltinformationsgipfel: The moped brings the Internet. In: Spiegel Online . December 11, 2003, accessed March 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ Andrea Kath: Read and pass on. In: taz . April 19, 2001, accessed March 28, 2014.
  5. ↑ Elaine Kurtenbach: In Only Exclusive Interview, Emperor Spoke of Concern for the Japanese People. In: Associated Press . January 7, 1989, accessed March 28, 2014.
  6. ^ Rural Schools Program. In: World Assistance for Cambodia website, accessed March 28, 2014.
  7. ^ Rural Schools and List of Donors. In: World Assistance for Cambodia website, accessed March 28, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Krisher, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krischer, Bernard; Krisher, Bernie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 5th March 2019
Place of death Tokyo