A Tokyo Romance

A Tokyo RomanceIan Buruma's unflinching account of his journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970s. When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant garde theatre, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers and moments on set with

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