Jim Impoco is a New York-based writer and a former Sunday business editor of The New York Times; he covered the rise and fall of the Japanese bubble economy as a foreign correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and as a reporter for The Associated Press.

Blog Entries by Jim Impoco

Hurricane Michael

Posted June 28, 2009 | 09:49 PM (EST)


In September 1987, I thought I had landed the big one, a career-making exclusive with a reclusive superstar.

I was a staff reporter for the Associated Press in Tokyo and what the Japanese were calling Hurricane Michael was coming to town.

It was a big deal. This was...

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