Alex Kerr has spent more than a decade restoring traditional houses in remote parts of Japan and using them to revive local economies. In recent years, he has written acerbic critiques about the ...

AD’s Aesthete revisits Alex Kerr's Japanese farmhouse, a study in soulful tranquillity. By Mitchell Owens. February 28, 2015. The main room of Alex Kerr’s 18th-century farmhouse in Japan.

It appears that when the Japanologist Alex Kerr was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, his tutors despaired at his unorthodox use of his time there, with one particularly testy don complaining, 'He ...