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Richard Atrero de Guzman is a Tokyo based freelance video journalist, producer/photographer, international correspondent for wire news agency. Completed work for New York Times, AJ+, Redfish and CNN's Great Big Story.
Morimoto Shoji is a 37-year-old who rents himself out for doing “nothing in particular”. But, doing nothing sometimes means a great deal to people who just need some company. The Japanese man kept his interactions to a minimum as he accompanied one of his clients, who was grieving a friend at a temple in Yokohama on January 29, 2021.
Ryuji Urabe is 93 years old but he is still driving. A former taxi driver in Tokyo, Urabe became a YouTube sensation after his grandson started sharing videos of him playing racing games online.
Produced for The New York Times
This is the final episode in a Bits video series, called Robotica, I produced for New York Times.
In 1987, Junichi Shimodaira fell in love. He was visiting the United States for the first time when he spotted a car driving low and slow in Southern California. Steadily, Chicano car clubs—an outlet for cultural and political expression that dates back to the 1940s—won Junichi over. At his Paradise Road shop he repairs and restores classic American cars, imbuing the lowrider aesthetic with a Japanese spirit of craftsmanship.
Produced for Ruptly
Japan is home to the world’s largest North Korean community outside the DPRK. Faced with widespread discrimination, Japanese North Koreans still profess loyalty to the DPRK. redfish investigates how this community battles against the rising tide of Japanese ultra-nationalism in “Homegrown Outcasts: North Koreans in Japan”.
Produced for Ruptly
During World War II, Japan committed mass murder all across Asia. But the country still hasn’t faced up to its imperial crimes and even the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, pushes a revisionist take on Japan’s colonial past.
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