村松 まどか Madoka Muramatsu

Muramatsu began her career as a reporter with Jiji Press, one of Japan's major national wire services. Working at the Tokyo headquarters and the Okinawa bureau, she covered politics, international relations, U.S. military affairs in Japan, economics, and social issues. While working in the agency's English news department, she wrote market news, feature stories, and interviews with visiting international officials. Her work appeared in leading English-language newspapers including The Japan Times and The Japan News.

She later worked at the Embassy of South Africa in Japan and at JOICFP, where she served as official interpreter to the Ambassador and managed bilingual communications materials. At the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, she served as Speechwriter to the Ambassador and as a Communications Officer in the Public Affairs and Cultural Section, contributing to communications strategy, writing and editing bilingual content, and strengthening relationships with journalists.

After leaving frontline journalism, she has continued writing as a freelance journalist and essayist, with work appearing on platforms including Yahoo! News Japan.

Today she also brings her bilingual fluency to international projects and meetings, supporting communication across English and Japanese. With native-level English and a refined command of Japanese, her interpretation, outward communications, and broader communications support help bridge differences of language, culture, and perception.

Rather than simple translation, she supports communication that carries nuance and context, helping businesses and projects move forward more smoothly and open into new possibilities. In this role as a Global Communications Partner, she supports international ventures and initiatives.

Beyond practical communications support, she also works as an international coach, accompanying leaders in refining how they communicate and how they show up in the world.

Muramatsu grew up in a rural city in Kyushu, southwestern Japan, where few people spoke English. Without overseas immersion or elite language programs, she largely taught herself English driven by curiosity and a love of expression. She placed second nationwide in the Takamado Cup English Speech Contest in junior high school, later achieving a perfect TOEIC score (990). She studied sociology and journalism as an exchange student at UC Berkeley, before graduating from the Faculty of Foreign Language Studies, Sophia University in Tokyo.

Behind what might appear to be a polished path lies a journey of personal loss and reflection. Through years of inner work, she trained with Mindvalley — one of the world's largest personal-growth organizations — and became one of the relatively few Japanese certified life coaches and meditation instructors through its programs. She is also a certified yoga instructor (RYT-200).

Her coaching integrates structured, results-oriented methodology grounded in science with deep inner exploration and self-inquiry. A global perspective shaped by both professional and personal experience underpins her work.

As a journalist, she developed a sharp eye for distinguishing fact from interpretation. Today, while she continues to respect the discipline of facts, her deepest commitment is to something beyond them — truth.

In recent years she has begun focusing more on voice and spoken expression, exploring ways of delivering language in a more embodied and resonant form. In 2025, she contributed poetry and essays to the exhibition Visible Mending by New Zealand-born artist Frances Melhop, weaving words around themes of rupture, healing, and renewal.

Across all of her work runs a consistent thread: a quiet but powerful presence, emotional depth, and a deep love for humanity and the search for what is essential.