22 Jun 2025

Calling Home: Cath Lealand in Tokyo

From Sunday Morning, 10:06 am on 22 June 2025

Cath Lealand left New Zealand in her early 20s and has called Tokyo home for the past decade. Now working as a freelance translator and model, the former Hamiltonian joins Jim to share what it’s like living in one of the world’s busiest and most fascinating cities — a sprawling metropolis of 14 million people.

View of Shinjuku skyscrapers and Mount Fuji as seen from the Bunkyo Civic Center in Tokyo

Photo: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0