Dhaka, Sept. 12 -- Monzurul Huq is well known among readers of Prothom Alo, Dhaka Courier and UNB news reports as a leading source of information in Bangladesh about Japan. Besides serving as Tokyo Bureau Chief of Prothom Alo, he has been a regular contributor to the weekly news magazine Dhaka Courier and has also reported for UNB.

During his long stay in Japan, spanning more than three decades, he has written extensively on major issues facing the country and contributed to other renowned Bangladeshi publications, including Kali-o-Kolom, the country's leading magazine on literature, art and culture. In recent years, he even published a periodic column in one of Japan's widely read national dailies.

All these achievements as a journalis...