Welcome to Lord Muck's Gleaner Online - the internet home
of the Gaijin Gleaner. The Gleaner is based in Fukuoka, a city of 1.2 million people
on the Japanese Island of Kyushu (the big one at the bottom..). It serves the English
speaking expatriates of Kyushu, providing information, news and comment about Japan
and the experience of being a foreigner living and working here. We also serve those
English speaking Japanese interested in a foreign perspectve on Japanese affairs.
The Gleaner is currently black and white, 24 pages, and appears monthly. It started
publication in June 1994.
All our back issues will be posted online over the coming months.
Future issues will be posted online "one month behind", so the only way
to stay completely up to date and support the magazine is to subscribe. Subscription, by first class mail,
costs 1800yen for twelve issues. To be brutally frank, the more subscriptions we
get, the less we have to rely on Japanese advertisers for support and the more hard
hitting our articles can be..
The Gleaner is always looking for new contributors and new contributions. Since we are
the most widely read English language magazine produced in Kyushu about Kyushu we
are also an excellent vehicle for advertising.
The Gleaner is a magazine of comment and opinions, dedicated to
stating the truth. In a country in which news is always to a greater or lesser extent
controlled, and in which what seems to be is rarely what is, the Gleaner is something
of an abberation. Our independance is hard fought and hard won.
If you have any comments about the mag. or about any aspect of
living in Japan, let us know. Unless you mark your e.mail otherwise we will assume
it is a available for publication both on line and in print.
For a more detailed explanation of the Gleaner's role, see a recent
editorial
Nikolas May
(Editor)
