Tabloid Tokyo: 101 Tales of Sex, Crime and the Bizarre from Japan's Wild Weeklies
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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 Tokyooffers a rare glimpse at the seamier side of Japanese culture lurking beneath the calm and dignified surface.
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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 Timesand the online edition of the Mainichi Daily News. Tabloid Tokyois 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 Tokyoshows us a picture of Japan that may be surprising and shocking-but is also relentlessly
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