Voices Across Borders

[ENG] Maya Kominz - Building a Career in Japan

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.