Waseda University
International Political Economy

Georgetown University
Asian Studies

Politics and General News Desk Intern
Thomson Reuters |
• Conducted interviews and research for Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondents on China’s diplomacy, politics, and social issues, including China’s foreign ministry press conferences and a Chinese harbor tied to North Korea-Russia arms transfers. • Collected, analyzed, and translated over 100 media reports, official documents, and judicial records on fentanyl regulation and trafficking in China for an award-winning investigative reporting project on international trade of fentanyl precursors. • Created a tutorial on identifying unfinished home projects through Open-Source Intelligence and analyzed over 200 complaint reports for investigative reporting on the unfinished housing crisis in China. • Managed over 50 daily English news digests encapsulating key insights and updates from Chinese media outlets.

China Desk Intern
South China Morning Post |
• Reported and wrote over 20 stories on China’s diplomacy, natural disasters, and population decline. • Broke the news on doubled foreign visitor numbers in China, U.S.-China fentanyl cooperation, and a Chinese businessman kidnapped in the Philippines. • Pitched feature stories on patriotic education in China and covered public reactions to a US senior official’s comments on Chinese international students, which became the week's second-most-read article. • Conducted in-depth interviews in Japanese for a full-page story on Sino-Japanese youth exchanges and a video story on sex workers in Tokyo’s red-light districts. • For the coverage of the Made in China 2025 initiative, after classifying and copy-editing translations of the official guideline on manufacturing and innovation, pitched a series of stories on the geopolitical impact of China’s advancements in science and technology, such as brain-computer interfaces and aircraft manufacturing.

Program Assistant
Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) |
• Pitched story ideas for documentaries focused on Trump’s second administration and U.S.-China tensions. • Coordinated reporting and interviews on timely topics, including dismantling Voice of America, brain drain from the U.S. research institutes to China, and the impact of rising tariffs on transnational e-commerce. • Filmed and captioned videos depicting China's social recovery following the end of the Zero-COVID policy.