TERRY M. BOARDMAN, born in Wales in 1952, graduated with a BA History (Hons) from Manchester University. He has lived and worked in Japan for 10 years and currently resides in the West Midlands, England, where he works as a freelance lecturer, writer and translator of German and Japanese. He is the author of Western Hostility to Russia: The Hidden Background to War in Ukraine (2023), Mapping the Millennium: Behind the Plans of the New World Order (1998) and Kaspar Hauser: Where Did He Come From? (2006).