Atomic Sushi - Hardcover

May, Simon

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ISBN 10: 1846880025 ISBN 13: 9781846880025

Publisher: Alma Books Ltd, 2006

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As the first British Professor of Philosophy since 1882 to be invited to teach at the prestigious and enigmatic University of Tokyo - the Oxbridge of Japan - Simon May enjoyed a degree of access denied to other commentators. Each chapter of the book focuses on some everyday human matter, such as love, death, bureaucracy, hygiene, food, toilets, commuting, education, marriage and memory. Japanese attitudes to such issues are explored through a mixture of light-hearted anecdote and trenchant analysis, and through his vivid accounts of Kafkaesque bureaucracy, flying goldfish, gangsters at funerals, businessmen paying good money to be whipped, doctors faking death certificates and cover-ups at all levels of society, Simon May manages to expose the foibles of a people who have captivated and mystified the West for nearly two centuries.

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"a sympathetic and witty portrait of a sometimes eccentric and often unusual people" -- A.C. Grayling

An intelligent and personable author who writes beautifully and
tells good jokes -- The Literary Review, July, 2006

‘witty and brilliant’ -- Financial Times, July 7, 2006

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