Akiko Fujita is a multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles, and a regular contributor to PRI's The World.
Akiko Fujita is a multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles, and a regular contributor to The World.
There's a thriving hijab fashion scene in Indonesia. But as more and more women there are wearing the hijab, some women who don't say they're feeling the pressure.
Joe Corona, 23, plays for the US national men's soccer team. But the Californian native's road to representing his country has taken him across the border to Tijuana.
For some, the California lifestyle is just too expensive. So why not trade your life in an American suburb for a bit of beach in Mexico ... and a commute?
It may seem hard to believe, but Toyota almost didn't make it in the US. Its first car, the Toyopet Crown, was a flop. Toyota helped establish a huge Japanese-American community in Torrance, California that finds it hard to imagine the company is moving on.
Primetime dramas in South Korea — known as K-Dramas — are filled with implausible story lines, complete with romantic twists and turns. They’ve been popular in Asia for years, but thanks to online streaming websites, they’re now gaining a cult-like following in the US.
Nina Sharmin was once a new immigrant from Bangladesh herself, struggling to pay for health insurance. Now, she hits the streets to help other immigrants fill out the 32-page application for Obamacare.
Gasoline is being rationed in parts of New Jersey and New York as the area copes with the destruction caused by Superstorm Sandy and this week's Nor'easter. Japan had to resort to similar measures in the aftermath of last year's earthquake and tsunami.
Akiko Fujita profiles Ichiro Ozawa who could become the third prime minister of Japan in the space of one year. Ozawa is a veteran powerbroker in Japan's Democratic Party. He's looking to unseat the current party leader, Japan's ruling prime minister.
Japan officially has the world's largest number of people over the age of 100. But a recent series of grisly discoveries has put that exact number in doubt. Correspondent Akiko Fujita reports from Tokyo on what's happening to Japan's centenarians.
For decades, Japan ranked as the world's second largest economy. Now it's been overtaken by China. But as Akiko Fujita reports from Tokyo, many in Japanese aren't surprised.
Akiko Fujita reports that the Japanese government is hoping a former North Korean spy will help solve a mystery of what happened to several Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea during the Cold War.