b>Richard Lloyd Parry/b> is Asia Editor of i>The Times/i>. He was born in 1969 and was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and since 1995 has lived in Tokyo as a foreign correspondent, first for the i>Independent /i>and now for i>The Times/i>. He has reported from twenty-one countries and several wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Kosovo and Macedonia. His work has also appeared in the i>London Review of Books/i> and the i>New York Times Magazine/i>. He is the author of i>In The Time of Madness/i>, an eyewitness account of the violence that interrupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and i>People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman/i>.