Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball Audiobook by Robert Whiting

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ID: 548568
Title: Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball
Author: Robert Whiting
Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:50:17
Language: English
Release date: 06-22-21
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Travel, Asia

Summary:
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 citys dark underbelly, interviews Japans 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.

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