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A book about ordinary life conducted under the extraordinary conditions of exile and secrecy. As a young Philippine student, Reynald Ventura travelled to Japan - the new Eldorado, the new America. Increasingly today, migrant workers of the South Pacific are lured to Japan by the promise of the glitzy, technocratic dream of Tokyo. Where they arrive at is Kotobuki and the migrants' real existence - a fugitive world of strip joints and seedy love-hotels; of getting labour jobs on dangerous construction sites and living out of meagre rooms. But Kotobuki is also paradise, the colourful realm of Margie the Koto Queen, Romeo the fashion model and Miguel of the rotten teeth. Ventura's record of his experiences is an account of living in a hidden society, always with the fear of getting caught. But going underground is also about the allure of living two lives, of finding freedom from the restrictions back home, and seeking new worlds.
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"The world of Kotobuki, the Filipino enclave in Yokohama described here, is sordid in all its externals. And yet it is possible for its inhabitants to say, 'Koto is paradise.' What could be meant by such an expression is part of the subject of this book - for all its deprivations, the migrant worker's life has its seductive side, its own lure. A refined morality does not last long in Koto, but the somewhat battered outlook which does survive deserves, I think, such respect as it gets here. This is a book about ordinary life conducted under the extraordinary conditions of exile and secrecy." - James Fenton"
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Rey Ventura now lives in Manila where he runs a small desk-top publishing business.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0224035509
- ISBN 13 9780224035507
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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