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Tokyo Alumni Podcast Episode 32: Yumi Araki (ASIJ 2006) - Journalism, Columbia University, Deciphering Japan, Analyzing Culture
Episode 32: Yumi Araki (ASIJ 2006)
Journalist (Senior Producer and Editorial Lead of a media lab)
Yumi (Youme) Araki was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and raised in Tokyo where she was a “lifer” at the American School in Japan, attending from kindergarten through high school.
Upon graduating in 2006, she attended Boston University’s College of Communication to pursue a bachelor’s degree in journalism, and spent her formative years after graduation producing documentaries at a production company. She then earned her master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and began working for the Washington D.C. bureau of Japan’s largest newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun.
After covering the 2016 presidential election, Yumi moved on to work as a producer at “On Point,” a daily news show on Boston’s NPR station, and currently produces short documentaries and podcasts for a Washington-based defense think tank.
Most recently, she hosted a four-part TV docuseries called Deciphering Japan, which explores hot-button issues that have both galvanized and polarized the nation. She interviews the people at the forefront of change in Japan.
Docu-series on Japan,
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video-on-demand/deciphering-japan
Podcast Summary
-What ignited interest in journalism,
-The importance of being versatile in multimedia in modern-day journalism,
-Will print media (in Japan) die out completely?
-Writing for sound v writing for print,
-Is media content changing to adjust to the demographics or the other way around?,
-Japans increase in foreign population,
-Japans aging population/population in decline,
-"karoushi", and Japanese work culture,
-The culture of work at the Japanese workplace,
-Yumis identity and how Japanese perspective in regards to "identity" is shifting (*shout out to Naomi Sundberg class of 2008 who makes an appearance on episode 4 of "Deciphering Japan"
-How did the series, "Deciphering Japan" come-about?
Youtube Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L56x7ID3fdA&feature=youtu.be
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Episode 32: Yumi Araki (ASIJ 2006)
Journalist (Senior Producer and Editorial Lead of a media lab)
Yumi (Youme) Araki was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and raised in Tokyo where she was a “lifer” at the American School in Japan, attending from kindergarten through high school.
Upon graduating in 2006, she attended Boston University’s College of Communication to pursue a bachelor’s degree in journalism, and spent her formative years after graduation producing documentaries at a production company. She then earned her master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and began working for the Washington D.C. bureau of Japan’s largest newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun.
After covering the 2016 presidential election, Yumi moved on to work as a producer at “On Point,” a daily news show on Boston’s NPR station, and currently produces short documentaries and podcasts for a Washington-based defense think tank.
Most recently, she hosted a four-part TV docuseries called Deciphering Japan, which explores hot-button issues that have both galvanized and polarized the nation. She interviews the people at the forefront of change in Japan.
Docu-series on Japan,
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/video-on-demand/deciphering-japan
Podcast Summary
-What ignited interest in journalism,
-The importance of being versatile in multimedia in modern-day journalism,
-Will print media (in Japan) die out completely?
-Writing for sound v writing for print,
-Is media content changing to adjust to the demographics or the other way around?,
-Japans increase in foreign population,
-Japans aging population/population in decline,
-"karoushi", and Japanese work culture,
-The culture of work at the Japanese workplace,
-Yumis identity and how Japanese perspective in regards to "identity" is shifting (*shout out to Naomi Sundberg class of 2008 who makes an appearance on episode 4 of "Deciphering Japan"
-How did the series, "Deciphering Japan" come-about?
Youtube Link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L56x7ID3fdA&feature=youtu.be
Anchor Link