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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 3 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | Donald Richie takes the reader on a revealing tour of the different districts of Japan's capital city. Starting from the original centre of Tokyo – the Imperial Palace – Richie branches outwards, taking in other areas such as Yoshiwara, the original red-light district, and Ginza, the world-famous shipping street. The author has kept a diary for the entire time he has lived in Tokyo, and excerpts from it provide on-the-spot insights into the significance of fashions and fads in Japanese culture (for example the recent Tamagochi craze), as well as the various aspects of life in a small neighborhood. Richie gives a real sense of how Japanese society has changed since the Second World War, yet remained rooted in its past.
With the eclectic eye and ear of a film-maker, Richie describes the flavor and idiosyncrasies of this chaotic, teeming city. Tokyo is illustrated with 30 intriguing photographs by Seattle-based photographer, Joel Sackett. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Donald Richie | | Paperback: | 124 pages | | Publisher: | Reaktion Books | | Publication Date: | May 15, 1999 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1861890346 | | Product Length: | 9.15 inches | | Product Width: | 6.15 inches | | Product Height: | 0.52 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.82 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.1 inches | | Package Width: | 6.1 inches | | Package Height: | 0.5 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 2 reviews |
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7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 interesting observations Sep 07, 2004
By Volkan
This is a different type of travel book, less filled with first person stories or dialogues but full of anthropological, architectural, historical & social observations of Tokyo. The author lived in Japan for over 50 years and is obviously fond of Japanese culture. The book gives a sense of what the life is like in Tokyo (as much as one can gather from reading a book).
6 of 20 found the following review helpful:
 A book for no one. Detestable. Sep 24, 2003
By M. S. Velde
"msvelde"
There seems to be more quotations in this book than original text, and half of them deal with London or Paris! There is no structure to the book: it is one continuous chapter very poorly written at that. The author makes an assertion in one paragraph only to contradict himself in the next.
But the worst is not so much the style as the content. In this book, we "learn" that the Japanese are dirty (p.57), that they all look alike (p. 72), that they are like children (p. 88).
I was extremely dissapointed. People who have lived fifty years in a place are usually able to convey something about it. This is not the case here. There seems to be no redeeming value about Tokyo. This is something with which I disagree, having myself lived there for more than ten years.
This is not a book for people who would like to visit and not for people who have been there.
This is a book for no one.
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