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Julia Shimura is a German-Austrian journalist and fixer/producer based in Tokyo. She has lived in Japan for over 10 years and speaks Japanese fluently. She reports on politics, business, society, and technology in Japan for ARD, among others, as well as on her weekly podcast, "The Japan Brief." The podcast “'Comfort Women'—When Memory Becomes Conflict” was nominated for the Juliane Bartel Prize.
