All About Japan

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In October 1991 I moved from the UK to Tokyo - my plan was to teach English to locals then, a few months later, travel Asia. However, before the end of the year, I had been hired as an editor and writer for Nikkei News Bulletin and Tokyo Journal and had started to study Japanese. I ended up staying in the country until 1994.

I have since returned to Japan frequently, travelling from snow-bound Hokkaido to sun-kissed Okinawa to research travel guidebooks and features. In 1997, I was commissioned to co-author the first editions of The Rough Guide to Japan and The Rough Guide to Tokyo; the Japan guide won the Travelex Guidebook of the Year in 2000. In 2009 I wrote the Rough Guide to Anime and contributed to the Rough Guide to Manga.

Other Japan-related titles that I've written include for Insight Guides, DK Eyewitness and Lonely Planet, where I am one of the main authors of their Tokyo guides and a contributor to the Japan guides.