Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball by Ro

by Robert Whiting

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Tokyo Junkie by Robert Whiting Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description 60 years of observation: an American journalist's memoir about Tokyo's modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball. Publisher Description 60 years of observation: an American journalist's memoir about Tokyo's modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city's dark underbelly, interviews Japan's baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation.A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, "the greatest city in the world," Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and, in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation. Details ISBN 1611720737 ISBN-13 9781611720730 Title Tokyo Junkie Author Robert Whiting Format Hardcover Year 2021 Pages 384 Publish

• Publisher: Stonebridge Press
• Year: 2021
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781611720730
• Condition: Fine

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