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This foray into the often violent subcultures of Japan dramatically debunks the Western perception of a seemingly controlled and orderly society."In place of the kimonoed ladies and the men in gray flannel suits who form so much of our sense of Japan, Greenfeld pulls back the curtain on a much more colorful and disaffected group gangsters, good-time girls, gold-toothed bikers and punks.... As young, hip and plugged-in as his subjects, Greenfeld provides a racy, knowing portrait of the people who are usually cropped out of the country's official portrait of itself." -Pico lyer, Time"A caustic and powerful rhetorical counterweight to the existing bland and myopic literature on the New Japan.... Greenfeld artfully arranges his vignettes in predatory sequence each of the individuals shown here feeds on (or is fodder for) the next group." -Village Voice"Greenfeld accesses contemporary Japanese culture at levels of resolution unavailable else where. I know of no better or more enjoyable work on the subject. Writers of fiction will be ripping Greenfeld off for decades to come."-William Gibson
ISBN:9780060926656
