My following book review appeared in yesterday’s Sydney Sun-Herald: Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan Jake Adelstein (Scribe, $35) What’s a nice Jewish boy doing in a place like this? It’s a question that haunts this fascinating memoir about a world largely off-limits to Western audiences. Japan is a curious…
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Animals and sex, a how-to guide
How to be an Australian journalist in Japan. (While keeping your head in the process.)
Blogging is like breathing
Who said blogging isn’t taking over the world? Compared to the English-speaking world, the Japanese have gone blog wild. They write Web logs at per capita rates that are off the global charts. Although English speakers outnumber Japanese speakers by more than 5-1, slightly more blog postings are written in Japanese than in English, according…