Ed Odeven Reporting

Interviews, features, commentary and archived material.

About Ed Odeven

Thank you for visiting this page, which has been updated in November 2022.

I joined JAPAN Forward as a sports correspondent in May 2020. I currently serve as sports editor of JAPAN Forward and our related website SportsLook.

I am a former sports reporter and sports desk editor for The Japan Times. Before moving to Japan in 2006, I previously served as sports editor for the Arizona State University’s State Press and the Arizona Daily Sun, as well as handling other reporting and editing posts for various publications.

This site is an outlet for new projects spanning the globe and a place to post material from past projects.

In September 2020, I published an ebook on legendary sports columnist Jerry Izenberg. “Going 15 Rounds With Jerry Izenberg” was released in paperback on December 31, 2020.

Follow me on Twitter: @ed_odeven
Email: odevened@gmail.com

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“As a journalist, it’s important to shine the light where people
aren’t looking and compel them to look.”
-Anne Hull

Carl Bernstein signs a copy of "All The President's Men" for me at a South Florida event in September 2013.
Carl Bernstein signs a copy of “All The President’s Men” for me at a South Florida event in September 2013.
Baseball legend Sadaharu Oh attended a Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan gathering in December 2007 in Tokyo.
Baseball legend Sadaharu Oh attended a Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan gathering in December 2007 in Tokyo.

Walter Cronkite and I at the Arizona State University journalism banquet (the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication) in the fall of 1997.
Walter Cronkite and I at the Arizona State University journalism banquet (the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication) in the fall of 1997.
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Opening Ceremony at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.
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Conducting an interview with then-Shimane Susanoo Magic star Michael Parker in September 2011.

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