Kurumi Mori

Kurumi Mori is an American-Japanese journalist at BBC News, who became the network's first Japanese foreign correspondent in April 2026. Mori moved from Bloomberg News where she had spent nine years as an anchor and correspondent in Tokyo and New York City. Prior to Bloomberg, she worked at CNBC, ESPN and other networks in the US.

Mori has reported on major breaking news and global events including the G7, World Economic Forum, G20, Trump-Kim summit, Rugby World Cup, Olympics, Paralympics, and the assassination of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. She has also covered in-depth stories such as North Korean defectors, Australia's Indigenous water rights, and India's human egg trade, which won the Online Journalism Award. Her interviews include high-profile guests including Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi, Hollywood actor Matt Damon, Olympian Sky Brown, and tennis player Taro Daniel.

From 2014-2017, she appeared on camera for ESPN reporting on the Little League World Series baseball tournaments. In 2022, Mori was named fellow of the 26th Executive Leadership Program for the Asian American Journalists Association’s Asia Chapter.

In 2025, Mori produced and presented a documentary for Bloomberg Originals entitled "Japan’s Massive Money Experiment" which looked at the country's use of negative interest rates and what impact that had on the economy. It won an award from The Society of Publishers in Asia.

Mori is a graduate of the Master's program at Columbia Journalism School in New York City.