Toh Lam Seng is a renowned scholar for his research on the history of journalism and a famous international affairs columnist. He worked as an editorial board member of Singapore’s Sin Chew Jit Poh and Lianhe Zaobao’s Tokyo correspondent. Starting from the late 1980s, when he began teaching at the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies of the University of Tokyo late 1980s, Dr. Toh has been devoting himself in journalism education in China and Japan for more than 30 years. Currently, he still participates in the Institute of Journalism, Peking University and uses it as a platform to engage young scholars and students in dialogues. His representative works include The Beginnings of Modern Chinese Newspapers and their Development in the 19th Century (1815-1874) published in 1990, 1998, 2002, 2015, and East Asian Journalism published in 2010 and 2020. This study starts from Toh’s childhood experience, in which he witnessed the politics of Southeast Asia. Against the backdrop of social changes of Japan and other Asian societies, this study outlines Toh’s thoughts and views on historiography, column writing on international affairs, and journalism education. With his work on the history of the development of newspaper industry in China, his long years of personal experience of Japanese society and Chinese newspaper industry, and his career in international affairs column writing and Journalism education, he developed a clear and stable Asian perspective and an emphasis on historical evidence and critical analysis of history.
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