I live in Cardiff (UK) right now but my hometown is the East Side (shitamachi) of Tokyo. Career: I started off writing about court cases (criminal and civil), then wrote about arts/culture, and now doing some not-for-profit. Interests/likes: history, mystery, old Tokyo, Kabuki, Kurosawa, Tanizaki, soba noodles with tempura prawn, fried egg sandwiches, Dylan, dandelions, a bit of surrealism to take the edge off things, Van Gogh, Hector of Troy, Hector of Swindon, Christmastime, BBC Radio 3, the Gospel of John, St Augustine, theistic evolution, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, sitting beside the Kamo River in Kyoto and the Sumida and Arakawa rivers in Tokyo, Shinobazu Pond, cosmology, philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion, William Lane Craig, Richard Swinburne, Tadanori Yokoo, Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Jamaican ska, old traditional hymns (esp. Charles Wesley), Philip Glass, the Stones, The Smiths, Factotums (my Tokyo band), Orange Juice, The Strokes, The Libertines ... and some other stuff.