Profile
Christopher Ross traveled to Japan in 1991 to visit a friend for a brief holiday and ended up staying for nearly five years.
In this time he studied Japanese language and contemporary literature – and took up aikido, attending one of Japan’s most severe traditional martial arts schools, the Yoshinkan Honbu dojo. He gained a black belt within 15 months of daily obsessive training, an adventurous period written up by Ross’s friend and Tokyo flatmate, the writer Robert Twigger, in his award winning Angry White Pyjamas.
In Tokyo Ross worked as an English teacher, model and television actor appearing in numerous commercials and in a popular Japanese historical soap opera produced by Fuji Sankei. He also found time to manage Tokyo’s largest second-hand English language bookshop.
He now lives and works in Paris.
