Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball

by Robert Whiting

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611720672
• ISBN13: 9781611720679
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"