Justin McCurry is Japan and Korea correspondent for the Guardian. He also contributes to the Lancet medical journal and the English-language service of France 24 TV, and edits the Number 1 Shimbun, the monthly journal of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan. Justin is the author of War On Wheels: Inside Keirin and Japan’s Cycling Subculture (Pursuit Books, June 2021), shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards in 2022. He has lived in Japan for the last twenty years.
