Japan: David Pilling in conversation with Gideon Rachman

Drawing on a wide range of Japanese voices and on David Pilling’s own experiences living in Japan as a foreign correspondent, Bending Adversity explores contemporary Japan in all its facets. Few accounts have attempted to draw so many threads – economics, history, politics and contemporary reportage – together in one volume.

With attention focused once more on Japan following Fukushima, and as territorial disputes heat up dangerously with China, join us for a very timely discussion between David Pilling and Gideon Rachman as we lead up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.