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Tokyo Confidential: Titillating Tales From Japan's Wild Weeklies

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I read the book in one sitting after I got it in the mail. The stories are gathered from the sensational sections of various Japanese daily newspapers. There are stories about mothers who sexually satisfy their sons so the sons will focus on schoolwork, insurance sales ladies that have sex with clients so they can meet their monthly quotas of sales, etc., This book shows that Japan has nuts - albeit of a different flavor - just like the rest of the world.

A guilty pleasure to read.

As one of the gee-whiz, rocket eyebrow types who has lived in Japan nearly 20 years, I really appreciated Schreiber and his cohorts explaining what is going on with Japanese high school girls and their thigh-high uniform skirts, compensated dating, etc. There's lots more in this book than that, certainly, as the various seedier and "oh my!" parts of (mainly) Tokyo are parsed from the vernacular tabloids by these witty and perhaps *too* informed writers. They translate not only the words, but the titillating currents that buffet the "impenetrable" Japanese people and help give this society some of its excitement and spice. Thanks, Mark et.al, for opening up the bamboo curtain a whole lot wider!

This collection of magazine articles, translated and re-written in English come from the Mainichi Daily News, who have sourced them from Japan's weekly tabloid magazines. Each article exposes a truth about Japan that most would be surprised to hear. Stories about old age people and their sex lives, schoolgirls and their "compensated dating," or selling their used underwear. About Tax Officials and exclusive hostess clubs, stay at home loners and bored housewives, of corruption, perversion and down right weirdness.

This is the real Japan. Not the Japan of Kyoto, Geisha or high-tech, but of real people and their perversions. It is a highly entertaining read.

Although now a little dated, they all ring true and are all still happening somewhere in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Forget kimonos, samurai and ninja. Find out what"s really happening on the streets of the Land of the Rising Sun. A fantastic book that digs deep into a land with an underbelly as big as its sumo wrestlers. A must read for anybody interested in a no-holds-barred look at the REAL Japan.

First of all this Book is funny and keeps you reading. Tokyo Confidetial focused on Japan and many kinds of characteristic of Japanese. I would say if someone read this maybe the reder would think Japanese are crazy, but i think this book really show true? parts of Japanese. It's nice book to find what Japanese are up to and also it is good for serching the reason wy Japanese are crazy. Overall, i really enjoyed it not because i learned funnt secrets about Japanese but this book keeps you reading, makes your time faster. Oh yes i don't know how many ties i laugh haha.
So if you read my review, just trsyte me and click the button "Buy" and i know you would laugh and enjoy it.