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Tokyo Junkie
60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and BaseballBy Robert WhitingNarrated by Stefan Rudnicki
Length11h 50m
About this audiobook
Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic sixty-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world.
Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first bestselling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation.
A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed, “the greatest city in the world,” Tokyo Junkie is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and, in the process, had his own dramatic personal transformation.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Other, Travel
Length11 hrs 50 mins
Narrated byStefan Rudnicki
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 21, 2021
LanguageEnglish
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