Kenji Hall is a correspondent based in Tokyo. He has reported from Japan for eight years. Before joining BusinessWeek in August, 2005, Hall spent nearly five years at the Associated Press. Hall got his start in journalism at Dow Jones News in New York after stints as a lab hand at Massachusetts General Hospital, a jack-of-all-trades at a now-defunct biotech venture in Charlestown, Mass., and a semi-pro soccer player at a cash-strapped Boston club. Hall is a graduate of Harvard.