Isoko Mochizuki

Isoko Mochizuki is a Japanese newspaper journalist for Chunichi Shimbun, based in Nagoya. Mochizuki is the inspiration for the film The Journalist, directed by Michihito Fujii and loosely based on a book of the same name by Mochizuki. She stars in the documentary film Documentary of the Journalist by Tatsuya Mori. Justin McCurry wrote in The Guardian that "Mochizuki specialises in a brand of robust questioning that many regard as the stock in trade of political reporters in Britain.