As a trade journalist/author who has been intimately involved with Japan since the late 1940s I have had the opportunity to sample its many pleasures over and over again--some of them to the extreme!
I have used the experiences of living in, working in, traveling in and writing 30-plus books on the Japanese way in all areas of life to present a smorgasbord of the many things that make Japan one of the most unusual, attractive and seductive countries in the world...with insights into how to enjoy the sensual and visual feast..and not necessarily go to the extreme!
The main sections in this profile include Modern & Tradtional Japan, Origins of the Beauty Element in Japanese Culture, The Essentials for Enjoying Japan, Japanese Words You Should Know, The Lay of the Land, the Climate, The People and a long list of the individual pleasures of the country, from the pleasure theme itself, Japanese Inns, the Hot Springs, Mixed-Sex Bathing, Festivals, Night-Life [from cabarets to geisha], the famous "bullet trains," the mystique of the kimono and yukata, and more.
Whatever your interest may be, Japan will inform, delight, and titillate you. I have included survival-type key words and phrases in Japanese with their equivalents in English phonetics so you can pronounce them perfectly without any previous study or practice. The book is available from Amazon.com.
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