Brian Ashcraft

Brian Ashcraft has authored six books, including The Japanese Sake Bible, Japanese Whisky, Japanese Tattoos and Arcade Mania. Previously, Ashcraft was a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, where he has covered topics ranging from digital filmmaking and liquor chemistry to Japanese politics and robotics, and a senior contributing editor at Kotaku, where he covered Japanese culture. His work has also appeared in Popular Science, The Guardian, The Japan Times and design journal Metropolis Magazine as well as publications in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Italy and South Africa.