NATHALIE TOURRET, 31, has been a freelance correspondent for France 24 and TV5 TV channels in Japan since October 2007. Before coming to Tokyo, Tourret worked on the Asia Desk at Radio France Internationale in Paris from 2003 to September 2007.
From 2001 to 2003 she worked in Seoul as the South Korea freelance correspondent for Radio France Internationale, France Info, FranceInter (major French public radio stations), RTBF (a Belgian public radio station), Radio Canada, Radio Vatican and RSR (a Swiss public radio station).
From October 1999 to October 2000, Tourret worked in Sydney as the Australia freelance correspondent for the same radio stations. From 1998 to September 1999, she worked in Vienna as a correspondent for Radio France Internationale, France Info and BFM (a business radio station), as well as at the French section of Radio Austria International. She is the co-writer of a book about South Korean society,“La Corée Dévoilée,” published in April 2004 by Editions L’Harmattan.

JULIEN ALRIC, 34, has been a freelance journalist and cameraman in Japan for TV channel France 24 since October 2007. His job in Tokyo consists of reporting any news regarding Japan’s diplomatic, social, economic, cultural and sports issues. All reports are done both in French and English.
Before coming to Tokyo, Alric worked as a trainee cameraman for different media organizations. In spring 2007, he followed a cameraman-journalist training program at the CIFAP (Centre Inter national de Formation Audiovisuelle et de Presse) in Montreuil, near Paris.
From 1997 to 2007 Alric worked in France as a theatrical actor. He performed in Paris, Italy, Russia and Switzerland.

JIM MCDONALD decided he liked Tokyo 20 minutes before he got there. It was 2 a.m. on Aug. 22, 1968, and the view was a sea of neon from the window of a World Airways DC-8 headed for Yokota Air Base. For the next three years, the Brooklyn native reported on the doings of fellow GIs when not otherwise engaged in the more important exploration of Tokyo’s bars, coffee shops and jazz clubs.
After a rude six-month interruption when the Air Force exiled him to the Oklahoma wilderness, McDonald returned to Tokyo without government sponsorship in April 1972 and found work at the Mainichi, where he honed an emerging talent for maximizing leisure and minimizing work. Eight years at Mainichi were followed by a dozen years freelancing commercial copy.
McDonald returned to legitimate journalism in 1990 with the English-language division of Nikkei, where he spent nine years learning the difference between profit and loss as applied to paid vacation. He then snuck in the back door of Bloomberg News, successfully fooling management into thinking he’d been hired. Most of his days are spent planning ski trips, taking ski trips, reliving ski trips and hoping someone will offer to pay him just to ski. Inquiries about skiing will receive prompt attention.

REGULAR MEMBERS
James McDonald, Bloomberg News

REINSTATEMENT (REGULAR MEMBERS)
Stefano Carrer, Il Sole 24 Ore

PROFESSIONAL/JOURNALIST ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Masae Sato Neilan, Fusion Consulting Industrial News

REINSTATEMENT (PROFESSIONAL/JOURNALIST ASSOCIATE MEMBERS)
Hatsuhisa Takashima, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS
Heather Russell, Rinkya Inc.
Daniel Lochmann, Edelman Japan K.K.
Craig Steven Peacock, Government of Western Australia
Donald Macintyre, Shinsei Bank, Ltd.
Noboru Maruyama, The Uehiro Foundation
Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Hideaki Homma, Toyata Motor Corp.
Kiyoshi Furubayashi, Toyota Tsusho Corp.
Zenichi Suda, Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
Fumiaki Mizukoshi, Hats Unlimited Co., Ltd.
Katsuhiko Ando, Dentsu Public Relations Inc.
Shinae Kamiji, JAL Plaza Co., Ltd.
Hiroshi Sugiura, NYK Line

REINSTATEMENT (ASSOCIATE MEMBERS)
Raymond Wilkinson, Japan International Cooperation Agency