Observed arrival · 2026-09-20
Oba Reporter’s Working Life, in Her Own Archive
The official site of Japanese journalist Hiroko Nohara, known as “Oba Reporter,” documenting her writing, broadcasting, lectures, field assignments, train trips, and unusually varied working life.
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- Readers curious about long working lives and journalism
- Worth noticing
- The biography records 35 kinds of part-time work alongside a 47-year weekly-magazine reporting career.
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The site organizes a long journalism career around recurring forms of work: magazine reporting, lectures, media appearances, experiential assignments, and solo train travel. Its biography traces a route from a live-in shoe-store job and night school to freelance work, editing-company management, and a period as a celebrity manager. Current entries include a five-session reading course, a lecture in Ushiku, and a planned moped solo-camping report.
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