Tim Bentham
BA graduate in Chinese Studies with Japanese from the University of Sheffield, including one year at Nanjing University. Tim spent two years working in Nagasaki as an ALT on the JET Programme, which instilled in him a lifelong love of Kyushu. He is interested in the languages and dialects of East Asia, as well as exploring its traditional art and folklore. His main passion, however, is film. It was his love of J-Horror classics, such as Nakata Hideo’s Ringu, that drew him to Japan in the first place; and his ongoing obsession with Studio Ghibli films has led him up and down the country in search of the locations that inspired them.