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Kaede Kikuchi is a journalist, researcher and rights clearance specialist based in Tokyo. She spent five years in news production at a major Japanese broadcaster before going independent. Since then she has worked across all five of Japan's national networks — NHK, TBS, Nippon TV, Fuji TV and TV Asahi — on news research, documentary production, fact-checking and international assignments. She currently works primarily with NHK. Alongside research, she handles rights clearance and licensing negotiations with Japanese creators, broadcasters and rights holders — verifying ownership, confirming music and likeness permissions, and negotiating terms directly in Japanese. She works remotely with overseas productions, which means research is often completed while your office is closed. Available for pre-production research, verification, contributor sourcing, archive searches and translation. Fluent in Japanese and English. Specific credits are available on request under NDA. Please get in touch to discuss your project.
Portfolio
Japanese-to-English subtitle translation for a music industry
battle audition series distributed on YouTube. Handled
colloquial dialogue, terminology consistency and timing across
multiple episodes.
Screen credit as researcher on an NHK educational series that teaches English through viral social media content. Responsible for sourcing online video content and verifying rights for broadcast use.
