Being disabled in Japan

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 open air. My eyes are closed [...]

Kusaya photos: Possibly the smelliest photo job ever

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 notorious – for. What does it smell like? Suffice to say the name kusaya is [...]