Journalist, Line Producer & Filmmaker based in Japan

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Sonja Blaschke is a multilingual freelance journalist, magazine editor, news desk editor, author and line producer from Germany based in Japan. She moved to Tokyo in July 2005 and speaks Japanese fluently. She reports mostly about East Asia, especially Japan and Taiwan. In 2013 she lived several months in Taiwan, from 2016 to 2018 she also spent many months in Australia & New Zealand.
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Sonja Blaschke Freelance East Asia and Oceania correspondent

Sonja Blaschke is a multilingual freelance journalist, magazine editor, news desk editor, author and line producer from Germany based in Japan. She moved to Tokyo in July 2005 and speaks Japanese fluently. She reports mostly about social issues, politics and current events like natural disasters in East Asia, especially Japan and Taiwan. In 2013, she lived several months in Taiwan, from 2016 to 2018 she also spent many months in Australia & New Zealand. After many years working as a line producer, she directed her first TV documentary „Rice Fields Instead of Tokyo“ in 2022 about young people moving from Tokyo to a remote mountain village to take up rice farming. In her spare time, you are most likely to find her at rock & metal gigs all over the world. Sonja will attend about 70 concerts and festivals a year, about which she writes online.

E-mail info@sonjablaschke.com
Phone Japan +81-90-1103-8299

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