Stephen Mansfield, author of Tokyo: A Biography , is a British writer and photo-journalist based in Japan. His photo-journalism work has appeared in over 60 magazines, newspapers and journals worldwide including the Kyoto Journal, CNN Travel and Nikkei Asia. To date, he has had twenty books published, four of them on the culture and people of Laos, several on Japanese gardens, and he has a chapter and essay in the anthology Inaka: Portraits of Rural Life in Japan (Camphor Press, 2020). Today he talks with us about Tokyo: A Biography (Tuttle, 2017), available available at online booksellers or any good bookstore. He has some interesting things to say, so please tune in at the above link, or subscribe to the BOA podcast.

The Books on Asia Podcast is sponsored by Stone Bridge Press. Check out their books on Japan at the publisher’s website. Amy Chavez, podcast host, is author of Amy’s Guide to Best Behavior in Japan and The Widow, the Priest, and the Octopus Hunter: Discovering a Lost Way of Life on a Secluded Japanese Island.

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