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Japanese Speaking Freelance Journalists
paydesk has 60 reporters who speak Japanese. Our journalists can do broadcast reports, as well as printed media and photography. Our top correspondents who speak Japanese are Yu Jiang and James Simms. Use our journalist directory to find an Japanese speaking member to work for you.
Journalists Who Speak Japanese
James Simms is a Forbes contributor and freelance journalist in Tokyo, former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and former Scripps Journalism Fellow at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is also a regular commentator on Japanese television and radio and former President of the Foreign Read more
English
Japanese
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
Fact Checking
Climate Change
Business
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
English
Japanese
Chinese (Mandarin)
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Fact Checking
Politics
Current Affairs
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
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
English
Japanese
Chinese (Mandarin)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
Breaking News
Current Affairs
Risk Analysis
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
Persian (Farsi)
Japanese
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
Risk Analysis
Arts & Books
Health & Fitness
Kaiyin Zhang is a journalist based in Seattle, Washington state, United States of America.
English
Japanese
Chinese (Mandarin)
Journalism
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
English
Japanese
Chinese (Mandarin)
News Gathering
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Breaking News
Technology
Fact Checking
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
Spanish
Japanese
Portuguese
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
News Gathering
Research
Food & Drink
Natural Disasters
K. K. Yam (Keizo Kay Yamamoto) is a tranquil rover and slow writer, who marks monologues, dialogues, and travelogues in the cloud. He is also an independent English-Japanese content editor, interviewer, translator, subtitler, and video editor. He has been working for many media content Read more
English
Japanese
News Gathering
Feature Stories
Content Writing
ALEMAYEHU SORI is a journalist based in Minneapolis, United States of America.
Avestan
Amharic
Aragonese
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Fact Checking
Current Affairs
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
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Technology
Arts & Books
Health & Fitness
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
Social
Current Affairs
Cultural
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
Spanish
French
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Fact Checking
Politics
Current Affairs
Martin Trabalik is a Czech documentarist based in Prague. In his work, he focuses on social and humanitarian issues. In January 2016 he volunteered during the European refugee crisis in Greece becoming interested in photography in the process. Since then he has worked on several projects in Nagorno-Read more
Czech
English
Spanish
Documentaries
News Gathering
Feature Stories
War Reporter
Investigative Reporting
Fact Checking
Niclas Ericsson is a journalist based in central Tokyo, Japan. He has lived in Japan since 2005 and worked with both still photography and video for over two decades and has filmed numerous interviews and stories all over Japan. He also offers support to foreign visiting crews, organizing Read more
English
Japanese
Swedish
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Food & Drink
Politics
Current Affairs
Jay is a Seoul- and Tokyo-based reporter with 10+ years of experience covering everything from North Korea and corporate whistleblowers to contemporary art and a sit-down interview with BTS. His works have appeared in some of the best-respected outlets like the Wall Street Journal, the New York Read more
English
French
Italian
Audio package (Radio / Podcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
Arts & Books
Film & Theatre
Technology
Ching Li is a versatile journalist who has been in the media for over 14-years, working across various mediums from newsprint, newswires, magazine and book publishing, TV broadcast news presenting and current affairs program producing. She has bylines in the Wall Street Asia Journal, Dow Jones Read more
English
Japanese
Chinese (Mandarin)
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Vox Pop
Entertainment & Celebrity
Politics
Current Affairs
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
German
English
Japanese
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
Business
Breaking News
Training
Androniki Christodoulou is a photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. With many years experience photographing for international magazines and newspapers such as The Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, etc.. Available for assignments in Greece and Japan. I shoot mainly photos Read more
Greek
English
Japanese
Photography
Interview
Business
Travel
Cultural
Sophie Knight is a journalist from the UK based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She worked for Reuters as a tech reporter and the major Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo. She's written about technology, architecture, culture, design, art, the Fukushima nuclear accident, Bolivian bonds, bitcoin Read more
English
Japanese
Dutch
Feature Stories
Content Writing
Corporate Content
Technology
Film & Theatre
Research
I am a freelance journalist and a video editor from Japan. Currently based in Taipei. I've worked as a journalist since 2013, covered conflicts in middle east countries, refugee issues in Japan, protests in Hong Kong and stories of Rohingya/Myanmmar. I take photographs, videos and drone Read more
Arabic
English
Japanese
Video Package (Web / Broadcast)
Interview (Video / Broadcast)
Documentaries
Current Affairs
Breaking News
War Reporter
I am an independent female documentary photographer based in Tokyo, Japan. Remotely work between my home country Indonesia and Japan. Accepting assignments worldwide. My focus is human rights, gender issue, ethnic and culture. Currently working as a contract photographer / videographer for Read more
English
Indonesian
Japanese
Photography
Food & Drink
Current Affairs
Social
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