Rosa Cardenas

Colombian journalist graduated from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Master in Global Studies from Sophia University in Tokyo, thanks to the Japanese government scholarship "Mombushou". As a former fellow, she has led the initial versions of Japan's World Assembly for Women (WAW) side events in Mexico (in 2015 and 2016) and Colombia (in 2017 and 2018). In Colombia, she was an international editor for the business daily La República and a digital reporter for Caracol Noticias. In Japan, where she lived for nearly a decade, she worked with NHK World and "International Press", being also a correspondent for media such as CNN in Spanish. She was the first Latin American woman to join the marketing firm Hiraki Tsushin, where she got to know the business world of Japan. She has also worked in diplomacy, having been an official at the Colombian Embassies in Tokyo and Mexico City. She is currently an advisor to the Diplomatic Mission of Japan in Bogota, directs the radio program "Aquí Asia" in the cultural radio station Javeriana Estéreo and is in charge of the video section "Hacia Asia" of the newspaper La República.