Michael John Grist is a ruins explorer and SF & Fantasy author who lives in Tokyo, Japan.
Exploring RuinsMJG explores and photographs the modern ruins of Japan, known as haikyo (AKA urbex).
See his ruins photography here. He curates a collection of world ruins here.
MJG also writes SF & Fantasy stories, sometimes epic in scale, often tinged with the surreal.
Find out more about MJG’s stories here. For more information on his novel Dawn Rising go here.
Michael was born in Manchester, England, to an American mother and British father.
When he was a kid he spent summer holidays with his family in Kentucky, worked at a summer camp in Massachusetts, and went to high school for two semesters in Indiana, leaving him with a mid-Atlantic accent and bi-cultural interests. Besides his writing and ruins photography he teaches English at university.
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on Ruin of a Japanese WWII Shipyard
on Kids Beer
on Fuchu US Airbase Heyday
on Remnants of the US Air Force Base in Tachikawa, Japan
on Remnants of the US Air Force Base in Tachikawa, Japan on Remnants of the US Air Force Base in Tachikawa, Japan on Remnants of the US Air Force Base in Tachikawa, Japan
on Ruins of the USAF base Camp Drake in Japan