Rey Ventura was born in 1962 in the foothills of Sierra Madre in Isabela. In 1983, after three years of studying engineering, Ventura was involved heavily in rallies and demonstrations in Mendiola. He transferred his major and completed a Bachelor in Arts, major in political science at the Trinity College of Quezon City in 1986. In 1988, he worked for a year as a day laborer in Yokohama. In 1992, Jonathan Cape published his seminal work: UNDERGROUND IN JAPAN. From 1996 to 2001, he was the Manila correspondent of Asia Press International, a Tokyo-based news agency.
