The backpacker’s guide to Far East venturing
Alex Farfurnik, Representative Director at Tianxi Japan
Alex Farfurnik was born in the Soviet Union in 1982 to Jewish parents in what today is the Ukraine, a region historically beset by anti-Semitism and pogroms. Early life was austere and regimented. Farfurnik remembers entering the Soviet educational system in first grade, where he was forced to wear …