Whatever plans we had in life, the pandemic put a wrench in most of them. As lockdowns loomed around the world, there were some who made the quick decision to shake things up before COVID-19 took over.
For Terry Ellis, 60, a buyer and director for Japanese brand Beams Fennica, this meant moving to Japan. He had been splitting his life between London and Tokyo for the past four decades but, until recently, hadn’t spent longer than a two-month stretch here.
An uncertain time for many of us, the beginning days of the pandemic saw Ellis pack his bags and swap his home in Brixton, south London, for an apartment in Tokyo’s counter-cultural Koenji neighborhood.