India, March 28 -- Where did you grow up and how and when did you take up Japanese translation; how did you come to live in rural Japan?

I grew up in the UK, but I was born in a different country. I delved into different languages at school. I was working in Barcelona for a literary agent and I met lots of Japanese people there and that's when I started getting interested in Japan and its literature. I was always fascinated about learning a language that had a different writing system. I decided to leave my job and go and study Japanese at SOAS, London University. I spent four years working really hard to learn the language, and after that I moved to Tokyo to work for a Japanese publisher. I was there for four years but in the meantime, ...