Emily Boon

Emily Boon is an editor at Tokyo Review, and a Tokyo-based independent researcher and freelance journalist from the Netherlands. She has a BA and MA in Japanese Studies and an MA in International Relations, all from Leiden University. Her research primarily focuses on Japanese LGBTQ+ politics.

During her previous employment as a junior researcher at the LeidenAsiaCentre, she wrote an in-depth report on this topic. In her free time, among many other things, she writes tanka poetry and helps out as a volunteer lexicographer for a project to create a new Dutch-Japanese and Japanese-Dutch dictionary.