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Japanese Speaking Freelance Journalists
paydesk has 63 reporters who speak Japanese. Our journalists can do broadcast reports, as well as printed media and photography. Our top correspondents who speak Japanese are James Simms and Gavin Blair. Use our journalist directory to find an Japanese speaking member to work for you.
Journalists Who Speak Japanese
Yu Jiang
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Jiang Yu is a journalist & producer based in Uppsala, Sweden. The podcast program he produced and hosted won a SOPA award (Excellence in Audio Reporting 2024) for ****. He also did live text reports on the death of Queen Elizabeth in London in 2022 and video reports on the Russian-Ukrainian war in Read more
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
Japanese
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
+7
Politics
Current Affairs
Sports
+5
Yushih Liao
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Yushih Liao is a journalist based in Taipei, Taiwan.
Working languages: English, Chinese and Japanese.
Education: Phd. Nihon University, College of Arts, Japan
Experience:
Correspondent, VOA (Current)
Chief Research Officer, Christie’s in Taipei.
Advisors, Taiwan Brain Trust.
Director, Read more
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
Japanese
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+8
Politics
Current Affairs
Arts & Books
+2
Kris Cheng
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Kris Cheng is a journalist based in London, United Kingdom, freelancing for Voice of America. I previously covered politics, Greater China and diplomacy from Hong Kong, mostly with the Hong Kong Free Press. See my Muck Rack profile: https://muckrack.com/kris-cheng-1
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
Japanese
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+13
Politics
Current Affairs
Media Training
+6
Sekyung Park
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Sekyung Park is a journalist based in Seoul, South Korea.
April 1, 2022 - Present: Technical Consultant and Monitoring Agent, Revival Broadcasting System (RBS), a private North Korean broadcasting station in South Korea.
July 26, 2020 - Present: Technical Consultant and Monitoring Agent, Read more
Japanese
Video Rushes
Technology
Salman Idris
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https://midbrainfilms.net/
Salman Idris is a Video Journalist-Producer ,Shoot/Edit/Documentary Filmmaker based in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Available for all cities of Pakistan and abroad,He is working as a permanent freelancer since 2015.
Associated with electronic media since 1998,He has worked Read more
English
Japanese
Kashmiri
+6
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+11
Business
Finance
Politics
+24
Chunghsi Tu
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I am Chunghsi Tu (杜宗熹). I'm a journalist based in Japan. I was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and now living in Japan. I have been engaged in media-related jobs for the past 10 years, including full-time, part-time and freelance reporting. I also have extensive interviewing experience in Taiwan, Mainland Read more
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
+1
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
News Gathering
Feature Stories
+5
Business
Finance
Politics
+12
Javier Íñiguez
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Currently working as a freelancer, Javier Íñiguez has navigated the Spanish media landscape for the past six years, including roles in relevant newsrooms (El Español, El País Cataluña), PR positions in the public and private sector and even international projects (Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Read more
Catalan
English
Japanese
+1
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
News Gathering
Feature Stories
+7
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+12
Galileo Cheng
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I am an award-winning freelance journalist and photojournalist currently living in Vancouver. Over the past decade, I have covered major events and breaking news in Hong Kong. My passion for storytelling led me to Vancouver where I am pursuing a Master of Journalism at the University of British Read more
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
Japanese
News Gathering
Feature Stories
Content Writing
+7
Politics
Current Affairs
Technology
+6
Keizo Kay Yamamoto
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Keizo Kay Yamamoto (a.k.a. K. K. Yam) is a tranquil rover and deliberate writer, weaving monologues, dialogues, and travelogues into the digital realm.
He also serves as an independent English-Japanese [en-US | ja-JP] content editor, interviewer, translator, and subtitler. Since 2006, he has Read more
Japanese
English
News Gathering
Feature Stories
Content Writing
+5
Nguyen Anh Mai
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Based in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Mai Nguyen Anh is a Vietnamese, part-time visual artist whose work blends observational and poetic documentary elements, inspired by personal significance and social paradoxes. His practices are driven by self-reflections on the world around him, fueled by the myriad Read more
Vietnamese
English
Japanese
Documentaries
News Gathering
Interview (Print / Radio / Podcast)
+4
Current Affairs
Technology
Science & Environment
+12
Vansanaphon Vongxaynha
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Vansanaphon VONGXAYNHA or Maxie, a graduated student in management from Vientiane capital, Lao P.D.R. After graduating from high school, His friends and him have founded "Langkorng" (Lao for “Behind the camera”), a Lao photographers club, which is the biggest photography community in Laos at the Read more
English
Japanese
Lao
+2
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+16
Business
Technology
Science & Environment
+18
Carl Freire
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Carl Freire is a writer, translator (J>E), and editor based in Tokyo. He has worked as a trade magazine journalist in Osaka and for the Associated Press in Tokyo. While he is focused primarily on his work as a translator, he has continued to write, with work appearing in the Japan Times and other Read more
English
Japanese
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Research
+3
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+6
Fred Mery
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I'm a cameraman based in Japan.
If needed, I can also work as a photographer.
My work ranges from corporate gigs to documentary or news pieces. I'm therefore extremely reactive and understand how difficult it might be for you to find the right person to work with in this country.
I own my Read more
English
French
Japanese
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+11
Business
Finance
Politics
+25
Xiaofei Xu
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I have been a field producer for CNN in Paris for the past three and a half years. I have all the skills you need if you are looking for a local producer in Paris to help you with writing a piece or producing a TV package.
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
+2
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Feature Stories
Content Writing
+3
Business
Politics
Current Affairs
+5
Daniel Fukunaga
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DANIEL FUKUNAGA is a journalist based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Born in Japan (speaks japanese very well), he lived and studied in Argentina for 10 years. After working at a newspaper and television station in Tokyo/Japan, he went to live in Brazil.
He currently works as a journalist, reporter, Read more
Japanese
Portuguese
Spanish
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
News Gathering
+7
Natural Disasters
Entertainment & Celebrity
Food & Drink
+6
James Carstensen
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Law graduate (Bachelor of Business, Bachelor of Laws, Master of Commercial Law) with six years in geopolitics and legal journalism and seven years of legal research and paralegal experience, and more recently practical legal experience in international human rights law (including submissions to the Read more
English
German
Japanese
+1
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
+7
Business
Finance
Politics
+10
Carmen Russell-Sluchansky
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Carmen Russell-Sluchansky is a journalist based in Washington, United States of America.
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
Japanese
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+14
Politics
Current Affairs
Science & Environment
+5
Alessia Cerantola
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Alessia Cerantola is a journalist working in Italy and in Japan.
English
Italian
Japanese
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
+8
Finance
Natural Disasters
Media Training
+3
John Matthews
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Hey all.
I'm a Japanese-English bilingual independent journalist out of Tokyo, Japan. If you're based in America and you're tuned into public radio, you'll often hear my spots from Japan on NPR's newscasts. Aside from that, I hold regular agreements with clients like Reuters for audio and video Read more
English
Japanese
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+8
Business
Finance
Politics
+10
Irene Herrera
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Irene Herrera, PhD(c) is a Cuban-Venezuelan documentary filmmaker and journalist based in between Tokyo and Miami. Among her non-fiction works are Kodo wa Awaseba (Gran Prix Expo Aichi Film Fest); Gaijin no Honne (2004); You Can Call Me Nikkie (2008); Women in Refugee: Stories from a Border (2009); Read more
English
French
Japanese
+2
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
+6
Politics
Current Affairs
Arts & Books
+2
Kaiyin Zhang
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Kaiyin Zhang is a journalist based in Seattle, Washington state, United States of America.
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
Japanese
Journalism
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