Kenji Hall is an American journalist based in Tokyo. He has spent more than two decades reporting from the US, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Mongolia, Taiwan, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia. He previously worked as a staff writer for Dow Jones Newswires, The Associated Press, BusinessWeek and Monocle. As a freelance journalist, he has contributed news stories and features to The Los Angeles Times, The Observer, The Financial Times, Travel+Leisure and other international publications. He grew up in California, and graduated from Harvard University in 1993.