Boys’ Love & Girls’ Love: Thai Boom & Japanese Revival with Moeka Iida

This week, we have Moeka Iida, a reporter and researcher at The Economist’s Tokyo bureau, covering Japanese politics, society, business, and culture. With a keen interest in subcultures and social trends, she has written about host clubs in Tokyo’s red-light district, the rise of female writers in Japan’s literary scene, and the changing face of masculinity. She also contributes to The Economist’s daily podcast, The Intelligence, and has reported from Thailand and South Korea. Born in Japan and raised in the UK, she studied anthropology at Sophia University in Tokyo. We're very thrilled to have her on the show!