Troubled by the blare and bustle of city life in Japan, one man audaciously escaped to a desert island where he lived for 29 years in blissful solitude. When age got the better of him, he was forced to rejoin to the mainlanders. But he recently had a chance to return to bid a proper farewell to his beloved atoll.
Masafumi Nagasaki, 87, became famous for moving to the island of Sotobarani, which he did in 1990. He recently returned with the help of Alvaro Cerezo, an entrepreneur traveler much his junior, who owns a company that takes tourists to live on desert islands for short recreational jaunts….