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Recently, I have been plugging the heck out of three great ebooks: Quakebook Reconstructing 3/11 The Teas that Bind Since the launch of my own ebook last weekend, it seems that the question that has been on everyone’s lips is … Continue reading
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Reconstructing 3/11
Reconstructing 3/11 is live. But what is Reconstructing 3/11 all about, you might ask? The team that brought you #quakebook has come together to launch a new type of journalism. Nine contributors with special insight into areas of Japanese life … Continue reading
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The Teas That Bind
My new book is available for download! Surviving earthquakes, one brew at a time. The book comprises posts written for ten minutes hate since the Great East Japan earthquake struck on 11 March 2011, along with emails, tweets and status … Continue reading
Japan Remembers, 11 March 2012
Fishing boats in Kobuchihama, Oushika penninsular, Miyagi Prefecture March 2012
Ishinomaki – Then and Now
Recently arrived back in Tokyo from another trip North and still attempting to unravel my answers to the natural question of ‘how was it?’ Perhaps this will help. The following is a documentary from Paul Johannessen, which interviews tsunami survivors … Continue reading
Ishinomaki, December 2011
There is too much to tell you and not enough words. Everyone who was here on 11 March must have a story to make the hair stand on end, about where they were and what they saw, who they lost … Continue reading
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Christmas in Tohoku Part 2
We got talking at the Free Tohoku and It’s Not Just Mud Christmas party, despite not sharing much language, our ‘conversation’ drifting over the head of her small boy, who wriggled in her arms in that way that children do … Continue reading
Christmas in Tohoku Part 1
Before I came to Japan, I wondered what Christmas would be like. It is not a Christian country and New Year is a much more important festival in the Japanese calendar. So I wasn’t expecting to see many Christmas trees. … Continue reading
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‘The most photographed anonymous man in the world’
I got a really lovely thank you from the #quakebook team, despite only doing something very simple to help with the publication of an interview with Our Man in Abiko in the Embassy of Japan in the UK’s newsletter. Take … Continue reading
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