Articles

A selection of articles on the dangers of asbestos, corporate cover-up, and tobacco smoking.

Articles on Japan written in the mid-1990s, ranging from the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subways to the Kobe earthquake, from the preservation of tattoed human hides to the fight to save the whales.

A fake cure for cancer that kills kids, Japan's exiled lepers, the grim legacy of Minamata, defective artificial heart valves and much more.

Stories that don't fit into the above categories : a farewell to Alistair Cook, Byron Bay, troubles at Opera Australia, tracking down a missing Japanese dad, Alan Gould, unlikely author.

Great corporate scams of the last 20 years ranging from Rene Rivkin and the mysterious death of a model to a racket in growing truffles, from the collapse of Australia's biggest insurance company to internet gambling, a $60 million sting on a Swiss bank and a child-sex coverup on a remote Pacific island.

A visit to North Korea's Gulag, the fight to save the endangered white tiger in Siberia, and a week in the Cold War's last frontier, the remote Kurile Islands.

A $639 lunch in Paris, a dip in an onsen in the Japan Alps, Bali before the bombing, the martyrs of the Aran Islands, dining on deadly fugu fish, breaking the bank at a Russian casino, and a museum dedicated to internal parasites.

The 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in Japan, the legacy of Hiroshima, the massacres on Okinawa, and an interview with a kamikaze pilot.