Simon Duncan was born on the Isle of Wight, U.K. and first came to Japan in 2000. He has spent 14 years in Nagoya, Toyohashi and Tokyo. He recently returned to Tokyo after working as deputy editor for Khaosod English, an English language online newspaper in Bangkok, Thailand. and volunteering as a teacher at the University of Mandalay in Myanmar. He holds an MA in Southeast Asian Studies from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
