About

I’m Freedom Ahn, a writer and analyst currently based in PEI (Canada), focused on the Indo-Pacific with a specialization in Japan: its policy, its institutional culture, and sumo.

I came to this work through an unconventional path. An MBA with a focus on East Asian business and cultural branding gave me a framework for how the Indo-Pacific, and Japan specifically, projects identity strategically.. Twenty years inside financial institutions across government, Big 4, and regulated industries trained a particular kind of attention to how institutions actually work beneath the surface.

My work appears in The Japan Times, The Independent, BBC Oxford, among others.

しっかりやろう。