Naomi Moriyama


Naomi Moriyama is author of “Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat: Secrets of My Mother’s Tokyo Kitchen” (Random House – Delacorte Press), which was hailed by The Washington Post as “a delicious way to stay healthy” and was selected by The Wall Street Journal Asia as one of the "Best of the New Year Diet Books" for 2006.

The book is a celebration of the traditional Japanese diet and Japanese home cooking, which helps explain why Japanese women have the #1 lowest obesity rate in the developed world (3%, vs. 11% for French women and 34% for American women) and why Japanese women have both the #1 longest life expectancy, and longest healthy life expectancy, of all 192 nations on Earth.

The book has launched in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and France, and is launching soon in Brazil, Taiwan, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Thailand.

Naomi has appeared on NBC’s TODAY SHOW for an interview with Katie Couric and a food presentation with Ann Curry, and on ABC’s THE VIEW, along with many newspaper, magazine and radio interviews around the world. She is a guest presenter on Real Simple TV and a judge on The Food Network’s acclaimed IRON CHEF AMERICA program in 2006.

Naomi is a U.S. – Japan marketing consultant who works with some of the world’s leading fashion, consumer and luxury brands and hedge funds. She also served as director of marketing at HBO in New York, and as account executive at Grey Advertising in Tokyo and New York, working on the Procter & Gamble and Kraft General Foods accounts.

Naomi was born and raised in Japan, and lives in Manhattan with her husband and co-author, award-winning writer William Doyle and travels to her mother’s Tokyo kitchen several times a year. This is her first book