Nevin Thompson is the Japan Editor for Global Voices. He is a translator, writer, and journalist, and has been connected to Japan for more than twenty years.
Nevin currently lives and works on an island off the West Coast of Canada, and spends about three months each year with his family in Tsuruga, a small city on the Japan Sea Coast, just north of Kyoto.
Profile photo by Jer Clarke.
Latest posts by Nevin Thompson from November, 2015
15 November 2015
Think You're Cool? Then These Stop-Motion Ultraman Videos Are for You.
A YouTube user has created compelling stop-motion videos of the beloved Japanese superhero Ultraman.
14 November 2015
Old Photos Show How the West Perceived Japan
Adolfo Farsari's hand-painted photos provide a glimpse of how Europeans regarded the country just a few decades after the end of that country's period of isolation.
10 November 2015
Stunning Instagram Photos of Fall Foliage in Japan
These Instagram photos of Nikko, a popular tourist destination northeast of Tokyo, capture the magic of fall in Japan.
7 November 2015
Shiseido's Gender-Bending Commercial
Japanese cosmetic company Shiseido has produced a gender-bending commercial that is turning heads.
