Robert Whiting
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Departures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
An important element in Japanese baseball is wa--group harmony--embodied in the proverb "The nail that sticks up shall be hammered down." But what if the nail is a visiting American player? Here's a look at Japanese baseball, as seen by baffled Americans.
Author
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Tokyo 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 world. Follow 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...
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