DAVID MCNEILL is the former Japan correspondent for The Economist and the Chronicle for Higher Education, and a long-term contributor to The Independent and The Irish Times. He teaches journalism and communications at the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo and is a coordinator for the electronic journal www.japanfocus.org. An excerpt from his 2012 book Strong in the Rain (co-authored with Lucy Birmingham) appeared in KJ’s post-Fukushima Fresh Currents, edited by Eric Johnston.
