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The Passenger: Japan
The Passenger
出版
Europa Editions
, 2020-08-11
主題
History / Asia / Japan
Travel / Asia / East / Japan
Literary Collections / Asian / Japanese
ISBN
1609456424
9781609456429
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=miQlEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Explore Japanese society in the lively series that
collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world.
Visitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan’s social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures that flourish in its “post-human” megacities. The country nonetheless remains an intricate and complicated jigsaw puzzle, an inexhaustible source of inspiration for stories, reflections, and reportage. Caught between an aging population and extreme post-modernity, Japan is an ideal observation point from which to understand our era and the one to come. The subjects in this volume form a portrait of the country that ranges from the Japanese veneration of the dead to the Tokyo music scene, from urban alienation to cinema, from sumo to toxic masculinity.
“
The Passenger
readers will find none of the typical travel guide sections on where to eat or what sights to see. Consider the books, rather, more like a literary vacation.” —
Publishers Weekly
In this volume:
Ghosts of the Tsumani
by Richard Lloyd Parry
Living in Shimokitazawa
by Yoshimoto Banana
Why Japan Has Avoided Populism
by Ian Buruma
Plus
: a Shinto sect in the shadow of power, fleeing debts by disappearing into thin air, the decline of sexual desire, the obsession with American blues, the strongest sumo wrestler of all time (who isn’t Japanese), the revenge of the Ainu and much more . . .