百年続く南カリフォルニアの仏教会とその開教使の横顔

Born in 1954, in Kure, Hiroshima. In 1981, Higashi moved to the U.S. and worked as a reporter for Japanese-language newspapers in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He also has experience as an assistant to a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Asashi Shimbun and as Japanese-language news distribution manager for Kyodo News Service’s U.S. corporation in Los Angeles. In 1998, he founded the monthly English-language newspaper Cultural News, which covers cultural news focused on Japanese art and cultural events in the Los Angeles area, as well as the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake. Both the monthly newspaper Cultural News and its online edition, www.culturalnews.com, can be subscribed to for a fee.
Updated June 2014