
A Beginner's Guide to Japan
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How does a sushi bar explain a Japanese poem?
Why do Japanese couples plan matching outfits for their honeymoon?
Why are so many things in Japan the opposite of what we expect?
After thirty-two years in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country as few others can. In A Beginner's Guide to Japan, he dashes from baseball games to love-hotels and from shopping malls to zen temple gardens to find fresh ways of illuminating his adopted home. Playful and surreptitiously profound, this is a guidebook to a Japan few have ever seen before.
'Rarely in any writing on Japan is provocation so elegantly and surgically performed' Financial Times
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- Cover
- A Note About the Author
- Title Page
- Contents
- Several Grains of Salt
- On the Streets
- The Enigmas of Arrival
- Dressing the Part
- Empire of Smiles
- The Perfect Actress
- Making Oneself Up
- Parts and the Whole
- Out of Time
- At the Counter
- No Bed for the Night
- In Your Dreams
- The Advanced Guide to Japan
- The 2.5-Dimensional Character
- Between the Torii Gates
- At Your Disposal
- East Point
- Looking for a "Yes"
- The Apple in the Garden
- In the temple
- The Empty Room
- On the Mat
- Words
- No Words
- What Will You Miss?
- Crowds
- In the Garden
- Freedom from Choice
- Being Responsible
- The Bridge of Hesitation
- Topsy-Turvy
- Behind Closed Doors
- What Lies Within
- The Fairer Sex
- The Family Writ Large
- The Other Side of Sorrow
- Out The Window
- The Faraway Island
- A Walk in the Park
- Learning to Be Foreign
- Just Like Us
- Playing Ball
- On the Horizon
- Spirits from the Past
- Plus Ça Change?
- The End, a New Beginning
- A Letter from a Friend
- A Note on the Type
- eCopyright
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