Mike Raggett is a writer and blogger and formerly a publisher, TV producer and director working mainly in the fields of education, training and corporate communications. He has a great love of Japan and the books of Haruki Murakami. He has blogged extensively during his travels in Japan and elsewhere at www.mikeandmurakami.com. He lives in London and when he’s not writing he’s in the theatre, concert hall, the opera house or galleries, following Hampshire and England cricket or in his favourite Japanese restaurants. Or, of course, watching Watford FC.