What is the author's tone in Parry's, Ghosts of the Tsunami?

Richard Lloyd Parry is a non-Japanese journalist working in Japan for several years. He thus employs a tone in this book which reflects the layers of his identity as author. Primary among those layers is the fact that he is not Japanese but is immersed in Japanese life every day. Secondary is the fact that he is a journalist and thus is capable of reporting objective facts – in this book he does this by including statistics, facts, and also first-hand accounts of the tsunami as told to him by witnesses – as well as reporting his own emotional response to these facts. Overall, Parry’s identity gives him a simultaneously close and distant tone in the book.