Based in Tokyo for over 30 years, I have written about automobiles, games, luxury lifestyles, travel and food, although nowadays I focus on developments in the car industry. In addition to Forbes, my byline has appeared in Car and Driver, Edmunds, Top Gear, Autocar, Auto Express, Auto Bild, Quattroruote, The Sydney Morning Herald, Herald Sun, The Japan Times, GQ Japan, Japan Airlines inflight magazine and Forbes Japan. Since 2015, I've hosted a TV show on car culture called 'Samurai Wheels' with ex-F1 racer Ukyo Katayama broadcast via Japan's national NHK World network, co-driven a Lexus V8 in the Nurburgring 24-hour race with Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi, piloted the lead car for Jeremy Clarkson in his "GT-R vs Bullet Train" race across Japan for BBC's Top Gear, authored a book in Japanese about car culture and sung in a male choir at the Vatican (but not in front of the Pope). I am the only columnist who writes in English for Forbes and in Japanese for Forbes Japan. I am a former co-chairman of the World Car Awards and a juror for the Japan Car of the Year, and the Best Cars of the Year