GAVIN BLAIR came to Japan 11 years ago to study and began his writing career working part-time for a Japanese magazine in 2000. Blair now contributes news stories and predominately business-related features to newspapers, Web sites and magazines in the U.K., U.S., Hong Kong, Ireland and Japan.

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON has been based in Japan since 1989, is author of Siamese Dreams and the upcoming Japan novel The Women of Wa.

BRADLEY K. MARTIN is a former FCCJ vice president who has worked in Asia on the staff of The Baltimore Sun (1977-82), the Asian Wall Street Journal (1983-86), Newsweek (1986-91), Asia Times (1995-2000), Asian Financial Intelligence (2000-01) and Bloomberg News (2005-09). Currently living in Nagano, he writes columns on North Korea for GlobalPost.com.

STEVE McCLURE, formerly Billboard magazine’s Asia bureau chief, now publishes McClure’s Asia Music News, an online newsletter and Web site focusing on news from the Japanese and Asian music industries.

MUTSUKO MURAKAMI, worked as a Tokyo staff correspondent for Asiaweek magazine, then part of Time Inc., for 16 years through 2002 when it folded. She joined the FCCJ first in l976 when she was with Chicago Tribune Tokyo Bureau. Currently a freelancer, she writes for Inter Press Service among others.

HENRY SCOTT STOKES is a Tokyo-based freelance journalist, working primarily with Institutional Investor and Alpha, the sister magazine of II, specializing in the hedge-fund industry. He has been a member of the Club since 1964, when he arrived in Japan to open the Financial Times office in Otemachi.

FRED VARCOE writes about sports, cars, music, travel and anything else that people are willing to pay him for. He is also editor of the Number 1 Shimbun. He lives in Chiba Prefecture with his Korean wife, his 1-year-old daughter and some very large spiders.