Ian Buruma was educated in Holland and Japan, where he studied history, Chinese literature, and Japanese cinema. In 1970s Tokyo, he acted in Kara Juro's Jokyo Gekijo and participated in Maro Akaji's butoh dancing company Dairakudakan, followed by a career in documentary filmmaking and photography. In the 1980s ...
Ian Buruma is a Dutch writer, editor and historian who lives and works in the United States. In May 2017, he was named editor of The New York Review of Books, a position he assumed in September 2017.
