eBook
English language
Published 2001 by Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd.
eBook
English language
Published 2001 by Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd.
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 ritualised 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
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 ritualised 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