TokyoLand

So, few nights back. Standing on the terrace, chatting with my mate from next door. He’s telling me about his experience of running the Tokyo marathon the day before. Shoes this, rain that, 10 kilometres here, and then, he said to me “was the best bit, I ran past Jesus”. And he describes it..he runs [...]

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Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945, died on January 4th this year, aged 93.
In 2005 I was fortunate enough to sit in his garden, under a tree, and listen as Yamaguchi-san told myself and colleagues from The Times about those terrible days. You can read an earlier [...]

Dear Friends,
Earlier this year the thought of running 200 metres to catch a bus was unappealing to me. But always one for a challenge and a laugh I decided to try running in a competitive road race this year. So two days ago, after a few months of training, I ran a 21.1km Half Marathon [...]

Marie Claire USA have run a 5 page spread of my images, which accompany a story by Abigail Haworth, on an Australian woman, Fiona Graham, who has become the first qualified Westerner to work as a geisha here in Tokyo, Japan. The spread as it appears in the magazine is below, and the Marie Claire [...]

Now usually I don’t get too excited about seeing my pics in newspapers, I’ve had thousands I guess over the years. But occasionally one is used nicely, a good size, alongside a good article, and it makes you smile to see the fruits of your labours. So it was on Saturday when my photograph of [...]

Last week in the American Memorial Park visitor centre, in Saipan, I came across this incredible shot of American airforce bombers, flying over Mount Fuji, on their way to bomb Tokyo during WW2.
An incredible shot, but alas, no photographer was credited.