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A Tokyo romance, a memoir, Ian Buruma

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A Tokyo romance, a memoir, Ian Buruma
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Main title
A Tokyo romance
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Ian Buruma
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, Buruma underwent a radical transformation. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free
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