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Tabloid Tokyo 2
101 "All-New" Tales of Sex, Crime, and the Bizarre from Japan's Wild Weeklies
Mark Schreiber, Geoff Botting,
Ryann Connell, Michael Hoffman,
Masuo Kamiyama
Paperback 288 pages
132 x 189mm 300g
ISBN : 978-4-7700-3060-3 / 4-7700-3060-6
Publish : Sep, 2007
Price : $12.95 |
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[ About the Book ]
In this sequel to the popular Tabloid Tokyo, the authors once again plunge into the pages of Japan's amazing weekly magazines to find more great stories that the Japanese are reading with unabashed gusto. Picking from a wide range of articles, from the most outrageous new developments in the sex industry to the most poignant social commentary, these media watchers, all long-term residents of the country, creatively translate and add the occasional, insightful commentary to put these "news" items into context.
Tabloid Tokyo 2, like its predecessor, offers a unique chance to see an uncensored and unexpurgated view of the quirky corners of Japan rarely covered in the mainstream media. Here are the fads, the fancies, and the foibles of life in Japan, as raw and "real" as life itself.
As a picture of contemporary Japanese society (or at least a large part of it), readers will once again find this a collection that is informative, sometimes shocking . . . but always entertaining.
| SOME FASCINATING PEOPLE YOU ARE ABOUT TO MEET |
- High school victims of aliens with a foot fetish
- Dog lovers who make jewelry from their dead pets
- The trainer who runs a boot camp for tired prostitutes
- Makers of lobster-flavored beer, chocolate squid, and turtle jelly
- An MD who judges a woman's character by her breast size
- The elite university co-ed who agreed to be deflowered on a porn video
- Molesters who formed a club to share their exploits
- Westerners who clean up from posing as Christian men of God
- A call girl who gets her kicks from sleeping with Sumo wrestlers
- The "Angel of Mercy" who seduces homeless men in their shelters
- "Experts" looking for Hitler and the Ark of the Covenant in Japan
Reviews
"Of the many ways to engage the Japanese, and the brilliant and peculiar society they have built, most involve reading long, long books with many, many footnotes. But the best way—the fastest, the most amusing, the most memorable—is through Tabloid Tokyo and its sequel Tabloid Tokyo 2."
— Stephen Hunter,Author of The 47th Samurai, latest of the Bob Lee Swagger novels
"[A] zippy collection . . . There's a refreshing lack of pandering, with much of the material presented in a straight-faced fashion that heightens its absurdity."
— Publishers Weekly, about Tabloid Tokyo
About the Authors
GEOFF BOTTING is a Canadian who has lived in Japan since graduating from the University of Victoria in 1986. He has worked as a journalist for the Mainichi Daily News, the Japan Times, NHK (the national broadcaster) and the Kyodo News Agency. He lives in Tokyo.
Australian RYANN CONNELL is the chief editor of the Mainichi Daily News, a leading Internet source of news about Japan in English. He has lived in Japan for almost twenty years and spends his spare time attending fertility festivals and researching love hotels.
MICHAEL HOFFMAN, originally from Montreal, Canada, is a freelance writer and translator living in Otaru, Hokkaido. He is the author of four books of fiction, the latest being Nectar Fragments (Authorhouse, 2006). His website is www.michaelhoffman.squarespace.com/.
MASUO KAMIYAMA is the pseudonym of a Tokyo-based translator who has written for the Mainichi Daily News since 1985.
A newspaper and magazine columnist, translator, and author, MARK SCHREIBER has lived in Asia since 1965, and currently makes his home in Tokyo. He is the author of The Dark Side: Infamous Japanese Crimes and Criminals (Kodansha International, 2001).
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