Ryūshō Kadota

Ryusho Kadota was born in 1958 in Aki, Kochi Prefecture, went to Tosa High School and then to Chuo University's law faculty. He built his name in Japanese nonfiction the slow way: going to the places where things happened and collecting testimony from the people who were there. In 2010 he won the Yamamoto Shichihei Prize, an award that tends to reward legwork more than prose style. He is also an openly opinionated commentator, and opinions about him split sharply along political lines. I do not think that should be hidden from a reference page, so I am saying it plainly. My own approach is to keep two ledgers. One is the reporting — the interviews, the reconstruction of events, the willingness to keep showing up. The other is the interpretation he lays over it. Those can be weighed separately, and a reader who does the separating themselves will get more out of his books than one who either swallows or dismisses the whole package. That is not a dodge; it is just how I would read any strongly voiced journalist.

Name (English)

Ryūshō Kadota

Name (Japanese)

門田隆将

Reading

かどた りゅうしょう

Born

January 1, 1958 (age 68)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dog

Origin

Aki, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

journalist

University

Faculty of Law, Chuo University

• Official sitehttp://kadotaryusho.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/KadotaRyusho
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%96%80%E7%94%B0%E9%9A%86%E5%B0%86
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11655047

Tags

• Kōchi Prefecture
• journalist

Last updated

2026-08-07

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