You may have seen reports this week of a surge in measles across Europe and the United States. The media have blamed a paper by British scientist Andrew Wakefield, whose research connected the combined MMR vaccine with…
Library Corner review: The Sound of the Mountain – Yasunari Kawabata Let me declare an interest, well at least two. On the one hand, I’m a sucker for anything Japanese. On the other, there’s little…
This month’s photo is one of my favourites. It sums up something special about Japan, for me. That sense that the place can look superficially so normal and almost Western and yet always there’s something…