Japanese Department

Akiko Uehara

Born in Yokohama, Japan. I live in Switzerland since 1999. I hold a master’s degree in international relations from Geneva. I am the Head of the Japanese section of swissinfo.ch since 2016. Previously, I worked for 15 years for Asahi Shimbun at the UN in Geneva, where I closely followed multilateral and Swiss affairs.

Kaoru Uda

Kaoru is a multimedia journalist who has worked for www.swissinfo.ch since 2017. She had worked before as police reporter and later political reporter for a Japanese regional paper for a decade. When she is not writing, she devotes herself to tennis and volleyball.

Ruiko Ono

Have worked in the Japanese and Swiss film and media industry in various functions since 2004.

Tomoko Muth

I have been living in Switzerland since 2016, and since 2017 I have worked for swissinfo.ch. Previously I had eight years experience as a journalist with Nikkei, a Japanese business newspaper.

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