WSJ reporter moves to Calgary from Tokyo

Wall Street Journal Canada bureau chief Chip Cummins sent out the following staff announcement on Monday:

We’re excited to announce that Chester Dawson has joined The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires team in Canada as a senior correspondent based in Calgary, Alberta. He’ll concentrate on the energy industry, but also report on other topics of note across western Canada.

Chester comes to us from the Tokyo bureau, where he spent two years covering the Japanese auto industry, along with defense policy and the debate over nuclear power following Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Prior to that, Chester did a five year stint on Wall Street inside the world of high finance after having working as international financial editor at BusinessWeek in New York. Earlier in his journalistic career, he reported for Bloomberg, The Associated Press and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He’s also the author of a pair of books: Lexus–The Relentless Pursuit and Frommer’s Japanese Phrase Book & Culture Guide.

Chester graduated with an M.A. in East Asian studies from Harvard University after getting his B.A. in history at Ohio University, during which he spent his junior year abroad at Sophia University in Tokyo.

Please join me in welcoming Chester, who starts this month.