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Atomic sushi: notes from the heart of Japan

By Simon , May

Book information

Publisher
Alma Books
Year
2007
ISBN
9781846880025, 1846880025, 9781846882821, 9781846880223, 184688022X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
294 kB (301301 bytes)
Pages
217 pages ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Civilization;Manners and customs;Travel;Anecdotes;Simon -- Travel -- Japan;Japan -- Anecdotes;Japan

Description

As the first British Professor of Philosophy since 1882 to be invited to teach at the prestigious and enigmatic University of Tokyo - the Oxbridge of Japan - Simon May enjoyed a degree of access denied to other commentators. Each chapter of the book focuses on some everyday human matter, such as love, death, bureaucracy, hygiene, food, toilets, commuting, education, marriage and memory. Japanese attitudes to such issues are explored through a mixture of light-hearted anecdote and trenchant analysis, and through his vivid accounts of Kafkaesque bureaucracy, flying goldfish, gangsters at funerals, businessmen paying good money to be whipped, doctors faking death certificates and cover-ups at all levels of society, Simon May manages to expose the foibles of a people who have captivated and mystified the West for nearly two centuries.

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