Adrift in Tokyo, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he had never been fit. Guided by his flatmates, he set out to cleanse his body and mind, getting involved in Japanese martial arts, and undertaking a course of "budo" training normally taken by the Tokyo Riot Police. In this book, he blends the ancient with the modern - the ultra traditionalism, ritual and violence of the "dojo" (training academy), with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the 1990s - to provide an entertaining glimpse of contemporary Japan.
- ISBN10 0575401249
- ISBN13 9780575401242
- Publish Date 23 October 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 December 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion mass market paperback
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English