Tokyo Junkie

<p><b>60 years of observation: an American journalist's memoir about Tokyo’s modern urban transformation its criminal underworld and oh yes baseball.</b></p>
<p><em>Tokyo Junkie</em> is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo once a dark fetid backwater and now the most populous sophisticated and safe urban capital in the world.</p>
<p>Follow author Robert Whiting (<em>The Chrysanthemum and the Bat</em> <em>You Gotta Have Wa</em> <em>Tokyo Underworld</em>) 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 best-selling 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.</p>
<p>A colorful social history of what Anthony Bourdain dubbed the greatest city in the world <em>Tokyo Junkie</em> is a revealing account by an accomplished journalist who witnessed it all firsthand and in the process had his own dramatic personal transformation.</p>