Yu works as a field-producer for foreign TV/ radio productions as well as magazines, newspapers shot in Japan. Feel free to inquiry her if you have any production you may wish to film in Japan.

Pitches: Gender inequality, Dekotora drivers, power or sexual harassment, young environmental activists, Japanese healthy dieting

2024

Nov

In progress

October

CNA

 

I'm Singaporean- Music Conductor in Japan

August

CNA

I'm Singaporean - Pro Baseballer in Japan 

CNA

Insight

Young and Lonely in Japan

The Verge

The Cloud Under The Sea

CNA

Sour, Salty & Alive - Preserving Produce

Channel U (Mediacorp)

World's Unique Neighborhoods 世界独特社区 Ep1 Trendy and Retro Shimokitazawa!

Ep 6 Fishery Port Neighborhoods of Japan and Taiwan!

Ep 7 Sharing Neighbourhoods of Toyama! 

2023

August

CNA Insight Fukushima's Troubled Waters

 April

Research for NPR

February

Research for VICE World News

January

Marathon Mother (Holyland Productions)

in production

 

2022

October

CNA Money Mind

How A Japanese Data Center Uses Snow To Cool Servers

How Japan's Using Technology To Transform Elderly Care

CNA Insight

August

Aftermath of Shinzo Abe's Assassination

July

CNA Insight "Nuclear Arms Race in East Asia?"

May

Research for Podcast documentary

April

The New York Times Faux Feast

January

BBC Miscarriage: The Search for Answers

 

2021

December

BBC

in production

 

November

CNA

in production

 

July to October

CNA Insight "Japan's Road To Recovery"

June

New Zealand's cinematic documentary "The Final Throw - The Dame Valerie Adams Story" 

in production

VICE News: Inside the Most Protested Olympics Ever

May

Bloomberg

Sponsored contents "To Tokyo Tomorrow"

March

VICE News: Japan is Facing an Alarming Spike in Female Suicide

January

CNA Insight Fukushima: 10 Years After

Tokyo-based photographer Irwin Wong's photobook project

 

2020

November

Tokyo-based photographer Irwin Wong's photobook project

March

CNA "Deciphering Japan"

Silver award to "A Woman's Role" under Documentaries: Society and Social Issues for World Media Festival 2021, Germany

Gold award to "Being Japanese" under Documentaries: Society and Social Issues for World Media Festival 2021, Germany

February

VICE Australia Podcast project preparation

January

CNA "Deciphering Japan" prep

2019

November

VICE

September

Boston Consulting Group's studio shoot in Tokyo

CNA "Venturepreneurs"

August

CNA "Insight" Rearming Japan

July

Channel 4 "Our Guy in Japan"

June

VICE Australia "Asahi Beer Project"

HBO "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel"

May

CNA "Insight" Japan's Demographic Time Bomb

November 2018

VICE News Tonight "Meet Nyango Star: This heavy metal cat mascot is trying to save a rural farm town in Japan"

Matthew Komatsu's writing pieces on Tohoku Earthquake

July

VICE Australia "Flavours of Tohoku1" "Flavours of Tohoku2"

April

Canon Photomarathon Asia Championship 2018

February

BBC Radio "File on Four: The Missing Bitcoin Billions"

VICE News Tonight

January

VICE News Tonight

November 2017

CBBC "Beyond Bionic"

October

VICE News Tonight "Japan's most famous avant-garde artist banned us from her personal studio"

BBC Radio "What Happened Next: The Japanese Tsunami, 2011"

August

The New York Times "In Japan, the Kit Kat Isn't Just a Chocolate. It's an Obsession"

July

VICE News Tonight "How Japan is preparing for North Korean threats"

May

WIRED "Tokyo's Vertical Farms- The Future of Farming"

Canon Photomarathon Asia Championship 2017

April

Chilli Hunter

February

VICE News Tonight "Japan's virtual Wife," "Japan's Premium Friday Attempts to Stop Death by Overwork," "Ike Nwala Is A Black Comedian Who Has Become Japan's Most Unlikely Star"

2016

November

The New York Times "The Great A.I. Awakening"

July

The New York Times "I Have No Choice But To Keep Looking" 

April

BBC Asia "Talking Business With Aaron Heelshurst: G7 Summit in Japan"

March

BBC "Impact"

2015

October

National Geographic "Machine Impossible"

March

France2 "Complément d’enquête"

 

And more...

Hotsauce (BBC), Holiday (BBC), The New York Times, The New York Style Magazine on artist Yayoi Kusama, TopGear Magazine (BBC), Dorling Kindersley Publishing on martial arts, Affinity Publishing, Dutch Radio, Appsolute Genius (BBC Children), The Gadget Show (Channel 5), Les Doc Interdits (France 3), Like A Shot Entertainment's coming production for Discovery Networks, and so on.