The Hollow Doll (A Little Book of Japanese Shocks)
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In the shade of the rising sun, a Westerner discovers the truth about Japanese attitudes toward love, sex, work, money, foreigners, pornography, God and death. By William Bohnaker.
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Format: Trade paperback
Condition: vg- condition, minor shelf wear, light storage wear
Size: 5.25"x8.0"
Pages: 268pp., 1990 edition
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Polite, industrious, ceremonious, self-disciplined: the Japanese are all these things. Or so they seem, at first glance, to Western eyes. But, as with the Japanese landscape, there is volcanic activity beneath the calm surface of the Japanese character. In The Hollow Doll, William Bohnaker reveals a contemporary Japan built on deception, blind obedience, killing competition, intense suspicion of foreigners, and spiraling affluence coupled with spiritual emptiness.
Telephone-sex clubs for neglected Japanese wives. A grotesque toy robot called God-Jesus. Family suicide. Shoe-box size apartments that Japanese city-dwellers are snapping up for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Over-worked sarari-men (white collar workers) who stumble home drunk to their dutiful, bored wives. These are the signs and symptoms that William Bhonaker finds at the heart of modern Japanese culture.
By turns astute, funny, and deeply disturbing, The Hollow Doll is an inside view of Japanese life, customs, and culture that no American traveler ever gets to see.
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In the shade of the rising sun, a Westerner discovers the truth about Japanese attitudes toward love, sex, work, money, foreigners, pornography, God and death. By William Bohnaker.