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Mitsunori Izumi, twenty-nine, sat on an imitation leather chair in the Wakao Wrecking Crew offices, sipping Bron brand cough syrup from a brown bottle and trying not to stare at the big, square Hino Truck Company clock on the wall directly opposite him. Read the first page
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Karl Greenfield has taken some of his experiences in Japan and I believe a lot of them to be very real. I have grown up in a Tokyo suburb since becoming a teenager and have seen many similar things occur in this country. I was very excited when reading it and wanted to recommend it to many of my friends living outside of Japan to let them know that these things do go on in this country yet many foreigners will never hear about any of them as they are only consummed with what occurs in foreigner friendly areas. It is clear that the author has done quite a lot of research into his work and therefore deserves the credit for it as young Japanese people are definitely more likely to reveal these facts and open up to a foreigner than to a Japanese person enquiring on the subject. The realism of this book adds to the excitement, and in my opinion and that of many of my peers the author has unveiled many interesting pieces of information on undiscussed topics.
And here it is...
This book proves it. Here you will find the juvenille delinquents, the motorbike gangs, the office ladies who convert to club kids by night, the porn stars and ultra-nationalist Yakuza surfers. And more.
Read this and you will be booking tickets to Tokyo tomorrow!
Upon a second reading, however (and after spending a year or so in Japan) Greenfeld's stories start falling apart. The cool stories are written from the perspective of an omniscient narrator who cannot possibly know all of the details that he claims to know. The best example of this is in the story of the young right-wing-nationalist who, when beaten in a fight, walks offscreen to commit suicide as the chapter ends. If he really committed suicide, how did Greenfeld get the story out of him? The abundance of instances like this, coupled with inaccurate details and blatant exaggerations, make the answer clear: Greenfeld simply made up these stories. Oh, he may have based them on real characters (like Janet Cook! e, the Washington Post reporter who had to return her Pulitzer) but these stories aren't an accurate picture of Japan. They aren't journalism. They're just fiction masquerading as truth (and larded with enough sex to keep your attention).
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