Judith Fein

Bio

Judith Fein is an award-winning international travel journalist, author and speaker, whose specialty is unusual travel and culture. She is the author of Life is a Trip: The Transformative Magic of Travel and The Spoon From Minkowitz.
Life lessons from Tadahisa Sakai, the last descendant of a Japanese samurai clan
By Judith Fein
About 150 years ago, at the end of Japan’s Edo period, a civil war resulted in the end of the samurai culture and the birth of modern Japan. One rebel clan of samurai chose mass suicide. But in the remote, mountainous Shonai region, the Sakai clan…