Interviews | Mark & Mary Devlin

Asahi Evening News: The Best Ads in Life are Free

Looking for an oscillator? Or an alien? Get what you’re after in the pages of Japan’s freewheeling classified ad press. If you are in search of phone cards from the Baltic states, a pen pal in New Zealand or want to buy a pharmacy in Venezia, the chances are you … Continue reading →

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Mark Devlin · Leave a comment

Big in Japan

With £400 pounds in his pocket, Mark Devlin left Scotland for the Far East. So how did he get from there to being publisher of one of his adopted home’s prominent English language publications? Billy Adams reports. It all started with a bunch of clapped-out tape recorders. A university lecturer was … Continue reading →

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Mark Devlin · Leave a comment