

Tokyo based Senior Manager at Kyodo Public Relations supporting global clients and helping Japanese firms expand overseas. All views are my own.
…Bourdain’s death, at least today (and I hope you’ll forgive my speculation and my projection): that he traveled because he felt called and driven, and that he had the hope of becoming something new, and that he found that he was still, a million miles later, inescapably himself, and that that self couldn’t be fixed in the way that he wished. Maybe he’d felt that way for a long time, yet kept living the dream life because what else could he…