bubmag

Ive lived in Japan 30 years now and thus have the ennui of a Tokyoite who cannot be bothered to go the countryside, but recently realized how much Id been missing when I spent a three days in Daigo-town, in Ibaraki Prefecture.  After a few days there, I came …

Everyone wanted to believe theyd just seen a pygmy hippo. Wed paused our kayaks after a greyish backside was spotted swishing into the forest. There are fewer than 200 pygmy hippos in Sierra Leone and theyre no easy sighting but around 80 per cent of them ar…