Hans Greimel covers Japanese, Korean and other Asian automakers and suppliers from Tokyo as the Asia Editor at Automotive News. Hans is an award-winning business journalist who has reported from 19 countries on four continents. Prior to joining Automotive News in 2007, Hans was a foreign correspondent with The Associated Press. His prize-worthy work includes coverage of Toyota’s unintended acceleration crisis, the 2011earthquake-tsunami in Japan, the hollowing of Japan’s domestic auto industry and a ground breaking expose of rampant price fixing among Japanese auto parts suppliers.

In 2016, Hans was the first journalist embedded with Toyota for an endurance drive through South America’s Andes mountains. Born near Detroit, Michigan, in the United States, Hans has a bachelor’s degree in political science and philosophy from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University. Detroit-based Automotive News was founded in 1925. It is the leading source of automotive news and the newspaper of record for the global industry, with extension titles including Automotive News Europe, Automotive News China, Automotive News Canada and Automotive News Mexico. Automotive News has a weekly print edition, a real-time website at autonews.com and a twice daily webcast called ANTV. You can reach Hans at hgreimel@crain.com.