Ian Buruma is an internationally acclaimed journalist and writer focused on Asia. He was born in the Netherlands in 1951. After studying Chinese literature at Leiden University, he studied Japanese film at Nihon University College of Art. He has written many works on Japan’s wartime history, including The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan and Inventing Japan: From Empire to Economic Miracle 1853-1964. He was a professor at Bard College from 2003.