Mari Saito

@saitomri

Correspondent in Tokyo. Previously DC, San Francisco |

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Joined September 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 21

    My entire feed is despair. Here’s a photo of my cat, Morty.

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    Jun 28

    My 5-yr-old client can’t tell me what country she is from. We prepare her case by drawing pictures with crayons of the gang members that would wait outside her school. Sometimes she wants to draw ice cream cones and hearts instead. She is in deportation proceedings alone.

    "The child — in the middle of the hearing — started climbing up on the table. It really highlighted the absurdity of what we’re doing with these kids.”
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    8 hours ago

    Rhiannon Brooker is one of 200 women in the UK prosecuted for lying about rape. Police charged her after noting the “reputational risk” to the force if her ex partner went to the media. She was sentenced to 3.5 years & separated from her 9 month old baby.

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  4. 9 hours ago

    “He connected with his subjects, especially the downtrodden, and told their stories with immense empathy.”

    “It was a sensibility he brought to his own writing. Even when he wrote humorously, it was with gentleness more than snark. He connected with his subjects, especially the downtrodden, and told their stories with immense empathy.”
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    10 hours ago

    Amazing (via )

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  6. 16 hours ago

    This detail. The things you lose when you lose local reporting and local reporters: “He treated council races like they were presidential races”

    God I love newspaper people. Read this. And cry.
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    Jun 28

    boss Nishino: “We didn't go for victory, we relied on the other game and that was slightly regrettable. We were very aggressive in the 1st and 2nd games. There was booing in the stadium and I'm sure the players heard that and that was regrettable."

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    18 hours ago

    From the moment gunfire rang out at the Capital Gazette newsroom, journalists there began covering their own tragedy.

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    18 hours ago

    Today's shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom marked a rare fatal attack against journalists in the U.S.

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    20 hours ago

    At least five people killed at newsroom shooting in

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    22 hours ago

    Before today, there had been 7 journalists killed in the United States in work-related incidents since 1992, according to . These are their names:

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    Jun 28

    The movie "Rabbit-Proof Fence" told the story of Daisy Kadibil and 2 other Aboriginal Australians who were taken from their parents, sent to a re-education camp and, after escaping, made their way home across hundreds of miles of Outback. She died at 95.

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    Jun 27

    has passed strict anti-smoking rules, leapfrogging national legislation watered down by pro-smoking lawmakers. 's reports:

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    Jun 27

    📈'Socialism' has been our top search since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's primary win last night.

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  15. Jun 27

    A photo from a (slightly) more rested period of my life...honored to be featured, thanks !

    Mari Saito is a reporter working on enterprise projects in Tokyo. She grew up in Japan & NZ. Her first journalism gig was covering cops in Philly. She’s worked for Reuters in DC/Tokyo/San Francisco. Before moving back last month, Mari freelanced in Berlin.
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  16. Jun 27

    A crucial on the Myanmar soldiers who expelled Rohingya from their land.

    “They terrorized us first. So we were given the duty to crack down on them. As we cracked down, whole villages fled.”
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  17. Jun 27

    Remind you of anyone? "On a chair next to him was a white caseless pillow that he used while sleeping on the floor under his desk."

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    Jun 27

    "Japan Tobacco welcomed laws protecting against second-hand smoke but opposed "excessive" restrictions." JT website: "the claim that environmental tobacco smoke is the cause of nonsmokers' disease is not shown in a convincing manner." …

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  19. Jun 26

    Lol

    Apart from the ones doing all the hacking, obviously
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    Jun 25

    Javier Solana, Ex-Chief of NATO, Is Denied Permission to Travel to U.S. via

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    Jun 25

    Congrats Brian Grow, , Blake Morrison, , , ,

    The 2018 Explanatory Category Winner: for “The Body Trade" |
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