Some of the articles I have written prior to my current Reuters stint, including business/finance beats, general news, long-form features and data-driven reporting (Latest stories are here)
Features
- ‘Suffocated’: Art becomes form of protest against Olympics (The Associated Press)
- The rise of Japan’s loyalty point influencers (Rest of World)
- Education tech stocks are shining as U.S. colleges are moving their classes online (Barron’s)
- How the Olympics-fueled tourism boom made store clerks carry pocket translators (Bloomberg)
- Interviewing mother of a Japanese death-row inmate in Kuala Lumpur prison (Malaysiakini)
- 19-year-old CEO’s ambition to match electorates to policymakers with an app (The Japan Times)
- Campus alcohol issues – international perspective (The DePauw Solutions Journalism Project), etc.
Business news
- Retailers will close on Thanksgiving. Online sales will get an even bigger boost (Barron’s)
- PayPal posted its strongest quarterly earnings ever (Barron’s)
- Schlumberger slashes staff as coronavirus hits oil demand (Barron’s)
- Ann Taylor’s parent company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (Barron’s)
- Cloudiest Tokyo summer in 129 years hits fashion brands’ 2Q sales (Bloomberg)
- U.S. dollar/Japanese yen Forex morning summary (Bloomberg)
- Dispatch from the Tokyo Blockchain Conference (The Japan Times)
- Alibaba’s QR-code payment debuts at Okinawa transit (The Japan Times)
- Immigrant-entrepreneurs’ business contest (The Japan Times), etc.
General news
- Japan expands state of emergency, approves 2 more vaccines (The Associated Press)
- What to watch for during Biden’s first face-to-face summit with Japan’s PM (Quartz)
- Japan declares emergency as COVID-19 cases hit record high (Al Jazeera)
- Congressional probe into COVID-19 deaths at nursing homes (Barron’s)
- Typhoon casualties on infrastructure across Japan (Bloomberg)
- Engagement ring brands go LGBTQ-friendly (The Japan Times)
- More Japanese colleges admit refugee students (The Japan Times)
- Campus transportation update – free shuttles began (The DePauw), etc.
Data-driven stories
- Google searches for Juneteenth surge, BLM goes mainstream (Barron’s)
- Map to track the coronavirus cases in Indiana and Illinois (The DePauw)
- Visualized admission and enrollment trends (The DePauw)
- Malaysia’s halal export decline explained (Malaysiakini), etc.
TV/Audio reporting
- The fate of this year’s Olympics (Raport o stanie świata [Poland])
- Tokyo Olympics 2021: Journalist Kantaro Komiya discusses the event’s preparations (A News [Turkey])
- Tokyo-based journalist paints grim picture of Olympics (CNC3 Television [Trinidad and Tobago]), etc.
Translations
- How a 600-pound tunafish sells for $3 million at the largest fish market in the world (Business Insider)
- How one of Japan’s oldest businesses has served roasted mochi for over 1,000 Years (Business Insider)
- Alibaba and antitrust with Chinese characteristics (Interconnected), etc.