Kentaro Ogura

Editorial Group Manager, Sapporo Bureau, Nikkei Inc.

Kentaro Ogura is Editorial Group Manager at Nikkei’s Sapporo Bureau. As a journalist, he covered industries including energy and electronics in Tokyo and Osaka. From 2012, he spent four years at Nikkei’s Seoul Bureau. In 2022, he helped launch NIKKEI GX and served as its editor-in-chief for three years. After serving as Deputy Managing Editor of the Business News Unit at the Tokyo headquarters, he was appointed Editorial Group Manager at the Sapporo Bureau in April 2026.