Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police
Adrift in Tokyo, "thirtynothing" Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: He had never been fit or brave. Guided by his roommates, he set out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts and joins the...
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Adrift in Tokyo, "thirtynothing" Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: He had never been fit or brave. Guided by his roommates, he set out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts and joins the Tokyo Riot Police on their year-long, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained "white pyjamas" and fractured collarbones. In this entertaining book, Twigger blends the ancient with the modernthe ultratraditionalism, ritual, and violence of the "dojo" (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs, and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the 1990sto provide a brilliant, bizarre glimpse of contemporary Japan.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780688175375 (0688175376)
ASIN: 688175376
Publish date: March 22nd 2000
Publisher: It Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Asia,
Japan,
Sports And Games,
Sports
Poorly written & not funny. Didn't finish.