[ENG] Maya Kominz - Building a Career in Japan

from Voices Across Borders · host Mina Kim Mok

This episode features Maya Kominz, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan.She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.

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This episode features Maya Kominz, a bilingual Japanese–English professional who studied and built her career in Japan. She shares the challenges of adapting to Japan’s exam-based university system, navigating workplace culture, and finding her voice as a young professional. Maya also explains why she left the corporate world to pursue freelance project management and how being bicultural shaped her choices.

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