Florent Herisson is the founder and editor of OsakaWire Intelligence. A French national based in Osaka, Japan, he writes long-form intelligence reports on the structural forces shaping the world: economic shifts, public health crises, geopolitical realignments, and technological disruption. His editorial focus is on subjects that matter materially but are poorly served by the conventional news cycle — slow-moving structural change rather than the daily noise.
Before founding OsakaWire, Florent spent years working across cultures, languages, and disciplines. That background shapes the publication's commitment to multilingual coverage (English, French, Japanese, Spanish) and to grounding every claim in primary sources rather than translated wire copy. His editorial philosophy is straightforward: evidence tiers on every significant claim, primary sources linked in every report, and full transparency about the methods and tools used to produce the work. Confidence is graded explicitly so that readers always know what stands on solid ground and what remains contested.
Beyond the intelligence reports, Florent writes literary science fiction — his novel In Everything tracks twenty-one different receivers across eight thousand years of a single transmitted memory. He also publishes a long-running photography masterclass under the OsakaWire Guides series. The unifying thread across reports, fiction, and visual work is a preference for slow attention over fast reaction, and for showing how a thing was made.
"OsakaWire" reflects the publication's relationship to its location — a working room in Osaka, the city's view, and a wire service that begins from the periphery rather than the imperial centers where most international coverage is produced. For editorial inquiries, source tips, or correction requests, see the contact page.