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Rob Goss is a Tokyo-based, freelance journalist and editor, specializing in travel writing and financial/business journalism. He is also the editor of Japan's oldest bilingual magazine, the Hiragana Times, and serves as Tokyo correspondent for eFinancialCareers.

Rob has been published across six countries in over 30 print and online publications and is currently a regular contributor to several outlets in Japan and overseas. He is a member of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and the founder of the Professional Writers in Japan networking group.


Travel writing
Besides contributing to the latest Asia's Best Hotels & Resorts guide book, Rob has worked on print and online guides with Northstar Travel Media, Trip Sketch and Hobsons' Guides. He has also provided travel writing for a number of publications in Japan and overseas.




Business / Finance
In addition to being a correspondent for eFinancialCareers (covering financial services employment in Japan), Rob writes the Hiragana Times' monthly Business Spotlight feature and contributes business articles to Weekender magazine. Other business-related credits include the Japan section of Hobsons' Careers in Asia 2006.




Feature Writing
Rob has covered topics ranging from homelessness to master kite makers for a variety of consumer magazines and custom publications in Japan and overseas. Click on the image to read the piece on homeless street vendors he wrote for the UK's Big Issue.




Publication editing
Rob's credits here include his current position as editor of the Hiragana Times and Elizabeth Ishiyama's book, Sento - The Japanese Public Bath. He previously copy-edited daily news articles for The Hokkaido Shimbun Press, Japa
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Select Publications

Magazines and Newspapers (Japan)

  • Tokyo Journal
  • The Weekender
  • Eye-Ai
  • The Hiragana Times
  • The Hokkaido Shimbun (copy-editor)

Magazines and Newspapers (Outside Japan)

  • Changi Class (Singapore Airport magazine)
  • Silkroad (Dragonair)
  • Voyageur (Carlson Hotels Worldwide)
  • The Big Issue South West
  • The Big Issue Wales
  • Lexus Magazine (Toyota)

Guide books / guides

  • Tokyo Intelliguide 2007 (Editor/Contributor)
  • Hobsons Guides 'Careers in Asia 2006' (Chapter on Japan)
  • Asia's Best Hotels & Resorts 2007 (Tokyo chapter)
  • Trip Sketch Narita Airport Guide 2008 (Sole writer)

Books on Japan

  • Sento - The Japanese Public Bath' by Elizabeth Ishiyama (Editor)

Web sites

  • eFinancialCareers.com
  • EA-Tokyo.com
  • TripSketch.com
  • Tokyo-Explorer.com
  • NETFA.com
  • Gazetteers.com
  • Rewind The Fifties
Current Positions Held
  • eFinancialCareers, Freelance Correspondent (financial services employment in Japan)
  • The Hiragana Times, Editor (bilingual magazine, circ. 90,000+)
  • Trip Sketch, Tokyo Expert (covering travel/travel industry in Japan)

 

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