GAVIN BLAIR came to Japan 10 years ago to study and began his writing career working part time for a Japanese magazine in 2000. He now contributes news stories and predominantly business-related features to newspapers, Web sites and magazines in the U.K., U.S., Hong Kong, Ireland and Japan.

DANIELLE DEMETRIOU is a British freelance writer and photographer based in Tokyo. For seven years she worked as a news reporter in London for The Independent, Evening Standard and the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. Freelancing since 2005, she writes travel, lifestyle and news features for a number of newspapers
and magazines.

BRYAN HARRELL has been writing about the craft beer scene in Japan since
1992. He hails from Northern California and has been in Japan since 1977.

TIM KELLY has been a journalist in Japan for the past decade. For the past three years he has been writing about Japanese corporations as the Tokyo bureau chief for Forbes, America’s leading business magazine. Tim also spent six years at Bloomberg News in Tokyo, mostly covering mostly economic policy and the prime minister’s office.

DAVID McNEILL writes for The Irish Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The Independent. He teaches a course on journalism at Sophia University and is a coordinator of Japan Focus: www.japanfocus.org.

Tokyo-based photographer JEREMY SUTTON-HIBBERT has taken pictures for Time, Italian Geo, Le Figaro, The Guardian and Greenpeace, among others. He has worked in over 40 countries and territories, including Antarctica and Mongolia. His work, for which he has been the recipient of photojournalism awards, has been widely published and exhibited in Europe and the United States. www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com

Regular contributor JULIAN RYALL is the Japan correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.