Creepy crawly cuisine
Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in my articles, my photos | 6 Comments »Earlier this week I photographed probably the sweetest middle aged couple I have met in Japan. On a gorgeous Autumn morning I visited them at their cosy little detached Japanese house in a pretty part of Western Tokyo. As we ...
Super Handicapped Pro-Wrestling
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in my articles, my photos | No Comments »Earlier this year I did a story on a group of disabled wrestlers called Doglegs: Super Handicapped Pro-wrestling. It sounds like the most incredibly crass bad taste idea ever. But after actually seeing one of their events I kind of understood ...
How to survive a bear attack in Japan
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 Posted in my articles, my photos | No Comments »Japanese brown bear . . . Not so long ago I was up in Hokkaido covering preparations for the G8 summit. One side story was the trouble residents of the Shireoko National Park were having with brown bears. You might think Japanese ...
Being disabled in Japan
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Posted in my articles, my photos | No Comments »This is the story for the Japan Times I blogged on a while back. Out today. "Access all areas: camping trip offers no-holds-barred insight into disability It is the early hours of the morning and I'm sat out in the ...
Plastic food factory
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in my articles | 2 Comments »Now, the weird thing about plastic food you see in restaurant windows in Japan is not just that it looks completely real. It's actually made in a way that mimics real cooking. Chefs chop and dice plastic vegetables and spoon ...
Kusaya photos: Possibly the smelliest photo job ever
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in my articles, my photos | No Comments »I've just got back from several days on the island of Hachijojima (45 minutes by plane from Tokyo, pop. 8,500). I thought I'd do a story on kusaya, a kind of malordorous preserved fish that Hachijojima is famous - or rather ...
Interviewing Bando Tamasaburo
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in my articles | No Comments »No pictures today because I was strictly on text duty. One of the biggest interviews I've done so far too. Bando Tamasaburo is the greatest living Kabuki onnagata (male actor playing a female role) in Japan. See him in gorgeous action ...
Vanishing Arctic Ice May Hurt Japan’s Wildlife, Tourism
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in my articles, my photos | No Comments »My National Geographic News article about the Shiretoko drift-ice in Hokkaido has just gone online. Two photos in the gallery : ) "For decades the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido has attracted tourists hoping to step out onto drifting slabs of ...
