Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experience 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.
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Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experience 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.
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Add this copy of Lost Japan to cart. $2.03, like new condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Lonely Planet Publications.
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Very Good + No DJ. Printing Not Spec. n/a. 12mo = 7-9" 269pp. Softcover. Clean interior and exterior. No highlights or markings in text. Strong and tight binding.
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New. Originally written in Japanese, this book offers an insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 253 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192. We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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I read this after I had visited Japan and I noticed many of the problems Kerr discusses on my visit also - the tangle of exposed electical wiring is especially ugly. One can understand the desire to modernize, with all its' comforts when you visit traditional, unheated Japanese homes but it is sad to see so many traditional houses and crafts, ect, dying out with the older generation. A very interested, well informed book. I wish I had read it before I went.
