Mo Bangfu

Who is Mo Bangfu?

Mo BangFu is a Chinese columnist and economist in Japan.

Mo taught the Japanese language at Shanghai International Studies University before obtaining his master’s and doctoral degree in 1985 in Japan.

Since 1995, he has been serving as a committee member of the program review conference of MXTV. The position was unprecedented for foreigners working in Japanese media, which thus led him to be a person carrying a symbolic importance for Japan’s globalization. Since the late 80s, he has been active in Japanese public life and more than 50 books of his in Japanese have been published. He has been an authoritative source introducing China.

The Hong Kong financial magazine Weekly Economy News reported, “Mo BangFu’s name is like a brand to spread Chinese culture that is widely known by the Japanese media and cultural industry, and the local Chinese community.”

From April 1999 to March 2002, Mo hosted a special column, "My View of China", on NHK to introduce the historic path and the current outlook of China after the execution of the opening-door policy. His column in the Asahi Shimbun began in 2002 and has been highly regarded by Japanese readers.