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Loading... Tabloid Tokyo: 101 Tales of Sex, Crime and the Bizarre from Japan's Wild Weekliesby Mark Schreiber
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A wild and weird collection of new stories from Japan. Are the stories real or not? Who knows but you just can't put this book down once you've encountered the stressed workers, nail polish and handbags collectors and more. no reviews | add a review
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A peek at the "real" Japan through the lens of its raucous weekly magazines. From "Strip Diplomacy Breaks North Korean Ice" to "Moms Mistake Kids for Pets" and "Panty-Gazing Research Revealed," Tabloid Tokyo offers a rare glimpse at the seamier side of Japanese culture lurking beneath the calm and dignified surface. For the last four years, the authors have mined the pages of a wide variety of Japan's weekly magazines, selecting the quirkiest, most off-beat, outrageous and intriguing stories to discuss in columns appearing in the Japan Times and the online edition of the Mainichi Daily News. Tabloid Tokyo is a collection of the best of these stories. Organized around such topics as sex, popular taste and style, crime, love, marriage and family, animal issues, and the salaried life, Tabloid Tokyo shows us a picture of Japan that may be surprising and shocking-but is also relentlessly entertaining. No library descriptions found. |
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