Kyoko Altman has worked as a correspondent and anchor for CNN and CNBC, and as a news-magazine reporter for Japan’s top-ranked news program “News Station” on TV Asahi.  She has covered war in the Gulf, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Clinton White House and China’s capitalist conversion in reports from over twenty countries.  In addition to interviewing heads of state, business leaders and celebrities, she has talked to gangs in South Central LA, tribes in the Amazon and a geisha who helped topple Japan’s prime minister.