Contributors

Tony McNicol

Tony McNicol is Editor-in-chief for EURObiZ Japan

tonymcnicol [at] paradigm.co.jp

Gavin Blair

Gavin Blair has been writing in and about Japan since 2000. He contributes articles to magazines, websites and newspapers in Asia, Europe and the US on a wide range of topics, many of them business related.

Geoff Botting

Geoff is a Canadian who has been working in Japan for the past two decades. A former newspaper and wire service reporter and copyeditor, he now works freelance out of his lair in Nakano Ward, Tokyo.

John Boyd

John Boyd, who hails from Liverpool in the UK, has been covering science and technology and their impact on business in Japan for the past two decades. He is the Japan correspondent for IEEE Spectrum and also writes on a variety of topics for various magazines.

Alena Eckelmann

Alena Eckelmann is originally from south of Berlin and east of the Wall. She has lived in London for 9 years and in Tokyo for 4.5 years now. Alena is an advocate of Nippon’s rich traditional and regional heritage and her articles have appeared in a number of lifestyle magazines in Japan.

Rob Gilhooly

Rob Gilhooly is a UK-born photographer and writer who has been based in Japan for 15 years. He has contributed to publications worldwide including Time Asia, the New York Times, the Guardian and The Australian. He is a former staff writer at the Japan Times and in 2005 completed post-graduate studies in photojournalism under the tutelage of Vietnam war photographer Tim Page.

Alfie Goodrich

British photographer Alfie Goodrich started taking pictures aged seven and had his first photos published in 1991, when he was 22. Since moving to Japan he concentrates all of his time on his photography and to teaching photography to private students in Tokyo, a roster which now numbers almost 100 people.

Alfie’s work covers commercial photography and photojournalism and various points in between. He is freelance, shooting for various commercial and editorial clients in Japan including: The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Nippon News, Metropolis, Q Magazine, Asahi Public Relations and many more.

Rob Goss

Originally from Dartmoor in the UK, Rob has been living in Tokyo for the past 10 years. His work is split between travel writing and Japan-related features on a variety of topics for a range of publications around the globe. For the past two years he has also been covering Japan’s financial services job market for eFinancialCareers.

Tim Kelly

Resident in Japan since 1996, Tim writes mostly about business in Japan as a contributing editor for Forbes magazine, as well as a weekly column, “Tokyo Dispatch,” for the Forbes website. Before turning to magazine and newspaper journalism, Tim worked for several years at newswires in Japan, including a six year stint at Bloomberg News as the Tokyo bureau’s chief government correspondent.

Ty Holland

Ty Holland is a freelance reporter and editor from the United States who has worked in media for the past 20 years. Having reported for TV Guide magazine for nine years in Los Angeles before moving to Tokyo in 2003, his writing interests range from business and politics to culture and travel.