For all those who have recently asked me what people need in Tohoku, within minutes of getting here I found out about something that really hadn’t occurred to me before. The fishermen who are now able to work urgently need to hire people to work for them during the upcoming wakame season. Getting back to [...]

Wow, what a whirlwind couple of weeks in Tokyo it has been! I’ve somehow managed to juggle sorting out personal items from my storage container, promoting my two new books, catching up with friends, attending to various business matters, and doing Tohoku-related activities. And I’ve stayed in five different places along the way. Any spare [...]

Here is a LOVELY way of supporting the ongoing recovery effort on Oshika-hanto: I am organizing a Valentine’s photography fundraiser with David Stetson. If you would like to schedule a very special studio portrait session with your very special someone, please let me know. We are hoping to raise half a million yen through this [...]

Caroline Pover’s popular 3-hour seminar based on her adventures in writing and publishing books and magazines provides information and inspiration to any budding authors, editors, journalists, publishers, or entrepreneurs. The next seminar is in Tokyo on Friday 8th February, from 6–9pm. The seminar touches on all areas of publishing both books and magazines, including: developing [...]