For those interested in seeing my first ever TV appearance, the video is available at CNBC's website, here.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
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About Me
- Tobias Harris
- Tobias Harris is a fledgling Japan/East Asia specialist — some have called him a "Japan hand," although for now he is probably more of a "Japan finger" — who worked for a DPJ member of the upper house of the Diet 2006-2007. He is now a Ph.D. student in political science at MIT. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and the Japan Times, and has appeared as a commentator on CNBC Asia's "Asia Squawkbox." He can be contacted at observingjapan@gmail.com.
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3 comments:
Congrats on that. I'm glad they posted up the segment - I realized this morning as I watched Nikkei CNBC that it was not the proper network/channel, and that your bit was not going to come up. Strangely, they had a screen in the background, showing the CNBC Asia broadcast, and I could see you, there, in the background, as the Japanese anchor droned on about rises and falls in stocks or whatever.
Anyway, an excellent job, and congrats again on your first TV appearance.
-Travis
I watched CNBC.I agree with you.
well done... and amusing -
interesting to hear from someone who knows what he's talking about (you) while trying to tolerate the broadcasters who have mastered the art of pretending to know what they are talking about (CNBC)...
Andrew Oplas
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