TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kerr,Alex
TI  - Lost Japan: last glimpse of beautiful Japan 
SN  - 9780141979748 (pbk.)
AV  - DS822.5 .K4713 2009
U1  - 952.04 KER 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - UK
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Japan
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - "Translated and adapted from Utsukushiki Nippon [i.e. Nihon] no zanzō"--T.p. verso
N2  - This is an enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over thirty years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady Bubble Years, and tells the story of the hidden valley that became his home. But the book is not just a love letter. Haunted throughout by nostalgia for the Japan of old, Kerr's book is part paean to that great country and culture, part epitaph in the face of contemporary Japan's environmental and cultural destruction. Winner of Japan's Shincho Gakugei Literature Prize, and now fully revised in a new edition
ER  -