When did you become interested in health and how did you adopt your current diet and sensibility towards food? I feel good that it reached many people, and that many people found inspiration from the ideas in it, and that I got to spread the ideas in it-ideas from Riane Eisler on partnership societies, from Eric Lerner on the Big Bang being wrong, from Stephanie Seneff on health, from Katie Singer on the harms of electromagnetic radiation. It’s been praised highly by some, while others have reviewed it skeptically and snarkily. Your recent novel “Leave Society” has been praised very highly how do you feel about the response to the book given that it’s so referential to your own lived experiences? He encouraged me, and over four months I wrote the essay. I was reluctant at first, saying my views on autism were controversial, and contradicted the dominant view on autism. In June of this year, Noah Kumin, editor of Mars Review of Books, emailed me asking if I’d write about autism for his magazine. I started researching autism in around 2015 for my novel Leave Society (2021). Learn to speak, read and write Japanese to a business level, or at the very least, come to Japan with a good foundation of Japanese language skills that you can commit to improving while you're here.Can you talk a bit about your recent essay, “The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal” and how you began conducting research on Autism?
What advice would you have for other Kiwi journalists hoping to make a career in Japan? I also try to explore different parts of the country, go on hikes, work on my Japanese language skills and spend time with my friends.
I'm involved with an international volunteer fitness community where I teach dance and take part in regular fitness and sports activities. What do you enjoy doing in your spare time over there?
Until then I hadn't really written much about New Zealanders in Japan and it was really exciting to meet someone who is such a pioneer in her field AND is a Kiwi. I have to say one of my favourite stories so far has actually been the one I wrote for the Asia Media Centre on Catherine O'Connell, the first non-Japanese female lawyer to set up her own law firm in Japan. IMAGE: Tao Lin Tell us your favourite story you’ve worked on, and why? FYI - pay rates are pretty low, though!Ī good level of Japanese is necessary for journalists, Tao says. I don't personally feel it's super competitive as publications are always looking for good stories and like anywhere, if you can develop a good relationship with editors and prove your worth to them, you will get work. It is very difficult if you do not speak the language, although there are networking events in Tokyo where English is used and there is also a community of Japan-based freelancers who speak English. How easy is it to make contacts, as a freelancer? Is the freelance scene very competitive? Some editor roles with publications that use English may be a little more flexible with the language requirement, but you would still need to be able to read press releases and other information in Japanese so having no Japanese skills at all won't cut it. It is possible to write purely for English-language publications, but there are only a small handful of those around and they don't generally have many staff writers. If you think about what you need to do as a journalist - calling people for information, conducting interviews, building contacts, research - there is no way you can do your job properly without knowing the language. You definitely need a good level of Japanese if you want to work for a local news organisation or for the likes of Reuters, Bloomberg, etc. Do you need to be able to speak Japanese to work as a journalist there? If you visit the websites of the top Japanese news platforms, they're still very text-focused and there doesn't seem to be a lot going on in terms of multimedia or visual storytelling. In terms of going digital, the progress in Japan is slower compared to New Zealand. This is hard for me to say as I don't have a lot of first-hand experience being immersed in the journalism industry in Japan, but I do know that English-language publications have been struggling. Tao Lin previously worked as a business reporter for Stuff.
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