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Callum Cafferty

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Reporter/researcher at @kyodo_english. Gold-standard NCTJ qualified. All views are my own. (日本語OK)

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Callum Cafferty’s Biography

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Reporter at Kyodo News, London Bureau
NCTJ gold-standard qualified.
Japanese speaker

Interested in international affairs, politics and culture.

Open to freelance/part-time work!

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"Trump's Stance On NATO Is Biggest Issue For Europe" | Ian Collins | US Election 2024

"Trump's Stance On NATO Is Biggest Issue For Europe" | Ian Collins | US Election 2024

Americans vote on Tuesday for the next President, with polls closing between 6pm and 1am EST. Tight competiti…

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How London's burial grounds were transformed into its parks

How London's burial grounds were transformed into its parks

Many of London's public parks stand on the sites of former burial grounds, some with headstones still intact …

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Black Londoners still disproportionately subjected to force by Met

Black Londoners still disproportionately subjected to force by Met

Over a third of uses of force by the Met were directed at Black people in 2024. Black people are only 13% of …

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Japan tsunami report for LBC News

Japan tsunami report for LBC News

I was on LBC news to report on a tsunami in Japan. I provided the latest updates by using local news sources …

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WATCH: The 100-year-old Japanese garden in Hammersmith

WATCH: The 100-year-old Japanese garden in Hammersmith

The Japanese Garden of Peace in Hammersmith is the oldest publicly known Japanese garden in London and provid…

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PM visit to Japan report for LBC News

PM visit to Japan report for LBC News

I was on LBC News to report on Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit to Japan. I provided analysis of Takaichi'…

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How London's burial grounds were transformed into its parks

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By Callum Cafferty, Catharine Arnold
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How London's burial grounds were transformed into its parks Many of London's public parks stand on the sites of former burial grounds, some with headstones still intact and others merely with skeletons underneath the trees and grass. London has been occupied for millenia and as such, the ground anywhere in the city is almost guaranteed to contain at least a few bodies. Burial grounds, however, were actually subject to a specific effort to convert them into parks during the Victorian era.
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Novelist Otani becomes Japan's 1st to win British crime writing award

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By Callum Cafferty
| Kyodo News English
LONDON - A Japanese novelist on Thursday became her country's first to win a major British award for crime and mystery writing, highlighting a boom in the popularity of translated Japanese fiction. Akira Otani was given the best translated crime novel prize at the Dagger Awards for "The Night of Baba Yaga," beating out five shortlisted competitors including fellow Japanese author Asako Yuzuki. "I'm in complete shock.
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Bush-Blair relationship not to be replicated by Trump and Starmer Original

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By Graham Moody Verified, Sapphire Hope, Callum Cafferty
| SWLondoner Verified
News Donald Trump has won the US presidential election, but does that mean he has won over Sir Keir Starmer? The last time Labour and the Republicans were in power at the same time was between 2001 and 2007, when Tony Blair was in charge of the UK and George W Bush in charge of the US. Back then Blair was referred to as Bush’s poodle, so could that happen again with Starmer and Trump?
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