Lost Japan

Drawing on the author's experience in Japan over thirty years, this title takes us on a backstage tour, as it explores the ritualised world of Kabuki, retraces the author's initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, 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.