Tokyo, Japan
$300 - $400 / Day
Request QuoteHave worked for 27 years at Bloomberg TV as an Asia assignment desk editor and field producer. Covered APEC, G7 summits held in Kyoto Osaka, Hiroshima and Jeju, South Korea, G7 finance Ministers meeting in Sendai and Fukuoka. Field produced executive interviews including former Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and CEOs including Panasonic, Nissan, Honda, Mazda, Rolls Royce, Microsoft and many more. Have field produced dozens of Game shows and Motor shows. Can set up interviews and negotiate with Japanese locals to secure necessary voices and arrange shootings. Can travel abroad as well.
The Bank of Japan scrapped the world's last negative interest rate by hiking for the first time since 2007. According to a statement, officials indicated that financial conditions will remain accommodative, suggesting this isn't the beginning of the aggressive tightening cycle of the sort seen in US and a Europe in recent years. Stephen Engle reports from Tokyo.
A rare listed tofu company in Japan looks to be defying a shrinking market and aiming for growth. Shares of Yamami Co. have tripled since June and doubled in the past three months. Bloomberg’s Kurumi Mori sits down with the company's president Toru Yamana and gets a tour inside the tofu factory.
With the Bank of Japan slowly loosening its grip on Japanese government bond yields, the country's investment firms are scrambling to prepare for an era of higher interest rates and volatility. That also means the return of physical trading floors. Bloomberg's Kurumi Mori checked out the buzz at one brokerage in Tokyo.
Can Japanese entertainment empire Round One really help save US malls that are losing customers to online shopping? Bloomberg's Kurumi Mori goes inside one of its arcades in Osaka and caught up with company executives who say they could boost foot traffic at American malls.
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