Cassandra Ling is a freelance writer and Japanese translator with over 10 years in Kyoto, Japan. She graduated from the Kyoto Institute of Culture and Language in 2015 and has been working as a translator at Kyoto University since. She has written freelance articles for online Japanese learning platforms like FluentU and NihongoShark as well as tourism articles for LIVE JAPAN and Gaijinpot. She loves being involved with the international community in Kyoto and showing off the best things about Japan.