After quitting his position with '' The Sunday Times '' , Murray moved to Hong Kong as a correspondent for '' Newsweek '' magazine . In 1975 , he moved to Japan . He remained in Japan for 33 years , living with his second wife and their children ( Matthew , Alexander , and Maindi ) in a traditional wooden house in the village of Aikawa in Kanagawa Prefecture . He reported on Asia for '' The Independent Magazine '' , '' The New Yorker '' and the '' New York Review of Books '' . His most noted work during this time includes his reporting on the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the 1983 disappearance of Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
Korean Air Lines Flight 007
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