Ikuru Kuwajima (b.1984, Japan) studied journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia from 2003 to 2007 and interned at a several newspapers. In 2007, he moved to Bucharest, Romania to work as a freelance photojournalist. He worked as a contributor with a news agency Media Fax, ZUMA Press and Grazia Neri. His coverage included Kosovo’s independence. He also published a story about the Danube Delta’s fishermen in the National Geographic Romania and Japan. In 2008, he moved to Ukraine to work on long-term projects. He is currently based in the Central Ukraine. Kuwajima is a native Japanese speaker and English-Japanese translator and is proficient in Russian and Romanian. He also contributed as a researcher for an upcoming book about Tokyo’s underground culture.

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