Hugh Lawson

Position: Editor, Japan Desk

Blog Posts

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Rice, frogs and trade dilemmas

The blue sky and white clouds bounce off the surface of the water in the paddy as I trundle up and down on the rice-planting tractor, sending frogs leaping and splashing away in all directions. I've been ...  Full Article 

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A pang of guilt at the pottery fair

Spare a thought for Japan's foreign clay throwers. The plunging economic tide has exposed some interesting characters here, like Graham McAlister, who came from Australia in 1983 to study pottery and never ...  Full Article | Comments [1]