Lucy BirminghamLucy Birmingham is Time magazine s Tokyo-based reporter and covered the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. She is the co-author of Strong in the Rain. Since coming to Japan in the mid-1980s, her articles have appeared in Bloomberg News, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe. She is also an editor and scriptwriter for NHK, Japan s national television and radio broadcaster. A board member of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, she lives in Tokyo. Read More Read Less