Lost Japan
Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr takes us on a backstage tour, as he explores the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble...
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Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr takes us on a backstage tour, as he explores the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, tells how he stumbled on a hidden valley that became his home...and exposes the environmental and cultural destruction that is the other face of contemporary Japan.Winner of Japan's 1994 Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781741795233 (1741795230)
Publish date: August 1st 2009
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Pages no: 276
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Cultural,
Culture,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Society,
Japanese Literature
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