David A. Nakamura has been a staff writer for the Washington Post since 1994, and he currently covers the administration of Washington, DC, mayor Adrian M. Fenty and city government. In 2005, David headed a team that won the $35,000 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for a series of stories about problems related to lead in the DC drinking water and the city’s failure to notify the public. In 2001, he spent a year in Hiroshima teaching English, and, in 2006, he participated in a two-week reporting fellowship through the Foreign Press Center Japan. David attended the University of Missouri, where he earned a BA in journalism. He will be spending his fellowship tenure at Keizai Koho Center.
"Unfamiliar Questions Await Obama on Visit to Longtime Ally Japan" (AOL News, November 11, 2009)
"Living Near the Diet as it Awaits Newcomers" (The Japan Times; September 12, 2009)
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