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Gavin Blair interviews Robert Whiting for #1 Shinbun (of The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan), December 28, 2013 Don MacLaren interviews Robert Whiting for Wilderness House Literary Review, autumn 2012 John Domokos interviews Robert Whiting for Tokyo Weekender, March 5, 2004 Robert Whiting interviews Richard Beyer (“The Destroyer”), “The Destroyer Tapes,” February 1980 Robert Whiting…

TEA LEAVES But will Olympics spoil its pristine image?ROBERT WHITING, MAY 08, 2019, 09:30 JST, asia.nikkei.com As the 2020 Olympics draw near, Tokyo’s global reputation has reached new heights. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi) The world is gradually beginning to realize that Tokyo is enjoying a golden age. The city is one of the world’s largest,…

ROBERT WHITING/RICHARD BEYER A.K.A. DESTROYER INTERVIEW Feb 29, 1980 Buffalo, New York (Also Present:Greg Davis, Photographer) TAPE 1 SIDE A Q: How did you wind up in Japan? A: By being in the right place at the right time. I became the world’s heavyweight champion of the WWA which was the World Wide Alliance, in…

LIFE Ichiro Suzuki’s career helped overcome ‘national inferiority complex’ ROBERT WHITING, Contributing writer, APRIL 05, 2019 14:30 JST Ichiro Suzuki: One of the greatest baseball players the world has ever seen.   © MLB Photos/Getty Images TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki retired from professional baseball on March 21 at the Tokyo Dome, in an emotional ceremony that…