Katsumi Sawada graduated from the Department of Law, Keio University, in 1991. While still in school, he completed the Korean Language Institute of Yonsei University in 1990. Entered the Mainichi in 1991. He served in the Politics Department and the Foreign News Department of the Editorial Center, a correspondent in Seoul from 1999 to 2004, a correspondent in Geneva from 2005 to 2009, a correspondent in Seoul from 2011 to 2015, an Editorial Writer in 2015, and became the current Director of the Foreign News Department in 2018. President of Seoul Foreign Correspondent Club in 20134. Sawada wrote 『「脱日」する韓国』, 『韓国「反日」の真相』 and others.