Joshua Hunt

Joshua Hunt is an author and journalist from Petersburg, Alaska. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and other publications. Previously a Tokyo-based foreign correspondent for Reuters, he has reported from Japan, China and Hong Kong, India, Tanzania, Kenya, and throughout the Americas.

Photograph shows a plate with sushi on rice, slices of lemon, and some green food item, probably seaweed, on a mat with a bowl, napkin, and pair of chopsticks, 1970s.
Social Justice

A Japanese Restaurant's Wait Staff Is Comprised Entirely of Elderly People With Dementia

At a comfort food place in Tokyo's Roppongi neighborhood, all the servers have dementia.

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Education

The Secret Betrayal That Sealed Nike's Special Influence Over the University of Oregon

University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer needed money to save his school. Alum and Nike chief executive Phil Knight was happy to help. But after Frohnmayer made a key mistake, Knight exacted a brutal punishment.

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Field Notes

Letter From Shibuya, Tokyo: When Home Is an Internet Cafe

A 2007 government survey offers a glimpse into the lives of Internet cafe refugees: In Tokyo, 58 percent of them are short-term day laborers, and most of them get just enough part-time work to earn a living.