Tabloid Tokyo: 101 Tales of Sex, Crime and the Bizarre from Japan's Wild Weeklies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 477002892X ISBN 13: 9784770028921

Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd, 2005

Synopsis

A peek at the "real" Japan through the lens of its raucous weekly magazines.

From "Strip Diplomacy Breaks North Korean Ice" to "Moms Mistake Kids for Pets" and "Panty-Gazing Research Revealed," Tabloid Tokyo offers a rare glimpse at the seamier side of Japanese culture lurking beneath the calm and dignified surface.

For the last four years, the authors have mined the pages of a wide variety of Japan's weekly magazines, selecting the quirkiest, most off-beat, outrageous and intriguing stories to discuss in columns appearing in the Japan Times and the online edition of the Mainichi Daily News. Tabloid Tokyo is a collection of the best of these stories. Organized around such topics as sex, popular taste and style, crime, love, marriage and family, animal issues, and the salaried life, Tabloid Tokyo shows us a picture of Japan that may be surprising and shocking-but is also relentlessly
entertaining.

About this title

About the Author

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 works for the Mainichi newspaper, specializing in stories about unseen Japan. A resident of Tokyo for almost 20 years, he idolizes his daughters, Misha and Natasha, fertility festivals and raw horseflesh-flavored ice cream.

MICHAEL HOFFMAN, originally from Montreal, Canada, is a freelance writer and translator living in Otaru, Hokkaido. He is the author of three books of fiction, the latest being The Coat that Covers Him and Other Stories (Authorhouse, 2004).

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 author of The Dark Side: Infamous Japanese Crimes and Criminals (Kodansha International, 2001).

HIROSUKE "AMORE" UENO is a graphic designer/illustrator whose works have graced many of Japan's popular magazines, Japanese and Hong Kong CDs and Club Flyers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 477002892X
• ISBN 13: 9784770028921
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Schreiber Mark