English teacher in Japan portraits

I blogged about this back in April, but the exhibition has just opened at the correspondent’s club so here are some more photos and a short interview with the photographer Gary McLeod.

Gary has been making portraits of English teachers in Japan. Each image consists of about 300 individual photos taken with a Nikon D70 and [...]

Tokyo Commuter Hell

Tokyo commuters

My corner of photojournalism isn’t exactly front-line war reporting. But I think this story was about the closest I’ve come to being physically assaulted in Japan so far.

Two years ago I was writing about the Tokyo transport system (pdf) and went out to get some rush hour train photos. (Only just uploaded the pics [...]

Super Handicapped Pro-Wrestling

disabled wrestler

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 why the wrestlers said it was empowering for them. These photos are [...]

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 [...]

Nikka whisky

Japan isn’t renowned for its whisky, but actually it should be because the good stuff is very good indeed. These photos are from one of Nikka’s two distilleries in Japan – part of a travel story I was doing on the city of Sendai.

I think I could guess why Nikka chose the location for a [...]

otaku dominoes

I was at the Big Site exhibition hall in Odaiba last weekend covering one of Tokyo’s many otaku events. (Deep deep into geek territory for a series of articles on Japanese pop culture exports right now)

This one was for model makers and figure collectors: everything from Tamiya tanks to latex Godzillas

I got there about 12 [...]

political protest

Is the end near for Fukuda? He’s not so popular where I live anyway!