| Ian Buruma
was educated in Holland and Japan, where he studied history,
Chinese literature, and Japanese cinema.
In 1970s Tokyo, he acted in Kara Juro's Jokyo Gekijo
and participated in Maro Akaji's butoh dancing company
Dairakudakan, followed by a career in documentary filmmaking
and photography. In the 1980s, he worked as a journalist,
and spent much of his early writing career travelling
and reporting from all over Asia.
He now writes about a broad range of political and cultural
subjects for major publications, most frequently for The
New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York
Times, Corriere della Sera, The Financial Times, and The
Guardian.
He was cultural editor of The Far Eastern Economic Review,
Hong Kong (1983–86) and Foreign Editor of The Spectator,
London (1990–91), and has been a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg,
Berlin, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C., St.
Antony's College, Oxford, and Remarque Institute, NYU.
He has delivered lectures at various academic and cultural
institutions world-wide, including Oxford, Princeton,
and Harvard universities.
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