The Way of the Urban Samurai - Softcover

Kasumi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804818177 ISBN 13: 9780804818179

Publisher: Tuttle Pub, 1993

Synopsis

The Urban Samurai is a satirical spoof of financial self-help books that flooded the American market in the late 80's and early 90's, particularly those that exalted the "Japanese economic miracle." Hilarious cartoons parodying Ukiyo-e woodblock prints adorn every page of the Urban Samurai.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

You've read Japan as Number One, take karate lessons, and eat tofu, but you still can't figure out why Japan is one of the world's dominant financial powers. Mainlining soy sauce doesn't help either, because the real force behind that phenomenon called Japan is the Japanese male himself, the Urban Samurai.The Urban Samurai culturally advanced beyond the imagination of any Westerner: His pre-historic ancestors were soaking in hot tubs before Los Angeles was invented, and were heating high-tech designer foods before Western man could handle a spoon.With the yen rate soaring, sushi bars putting delicatessens into extinction, and Fortune 500 companies issuing quarterly reports in Japanese, it is not just helpful - but a matter of survival - to understand that prodigy of the industrialized world, the Urban Samurai.

From the Back Cover:

* Why does the Urban Samurai become sexually aroused when the Nikkei Index is up?* How did the name of an American president become the word for "to throw up" in Japanese?* How can a Japanese mail-order catalog change the course of the American economy?* How can you achieve a cosmic merging as one with the universe by pouting?

About this edition

• Publisher: Tuttle Pub
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0804818177
• ISBN 13: 9780804818179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 113