Kumi Taguchi is no stranger to travel. The daughter of an Australian mother and a Japanese father, she would visit her grandparents in Tokyo, accompanied by her mother and sister. As an adult, Taguchi spent six years working as a journalist in Hong Kong, while trips have taken her to Venice and Uganda.
Despite those regular childhood visits to Japan, Taguchi has said she “didn’t really grow up with” her dad, who lived in Australia, and only reconnected with him in her 20s. She will reflect on her relationship with her father and home in her upcoming memoir, The Good Daughter, out in April. Taguchi wrote the book around her work as the host of SBS TV panel show Insight, where for the past four years she has hosted conversations on topics as diverse as near-death experiences, online dating and modern-day cults.
